Genesis 6:3

Amplified Bible

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive and remain with man forever, because he is indeed flesh [sinful, corrupt—given over to sensual appetites]; nevertheless his days shall yet be a hundred and twenty years.”

Cross References

Genesis 6:2

that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and desirable; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose and desired.

Nehemiah 9:30

“Yet You were patient with them for many years, And admonished them and warned them by Your Spirit through Your prophets; Still they would not listen. Therefore You gave them into the hand (power) of the peoples of the lands.

Psalm 78:39

For He [graciously] remembered that they were mere [human] flesh, A wind that goes and does not return.

Psalm 90:10

The days of our life are seventy years— Or even, if because of strength, eighty years; Yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow, For it is soon gone and we fly away.

Isaiah 5:4

“What more could have been done for My vineyard that I have not done in it? When I expected it to produce good grapes, why did it yield worthless ones?

Isaiah 57:16

“For I will not contend forever, Nor will I always be angry; For [if I did stay angry] the spirit [of man] would grow weak before Me, And the breath of those whom I have created.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled And grieved His Holy Spirit; Therefore He changed into their enemy, And He fought against them.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore thus says the Lord, “Behold I am bringing disaster and suffering on them which they will not be able to escape; though they cry to Me, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:7

For I solemnly warned your fathers at the time that I brought them up from the land of Egypt, even to this day, warning them persistently, saying, “Obey My voice.”

Numbers 11:17

Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take away some of the Spirit who is upon you, and will put Him upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you will not have to bear it all alone.

John 3:6

That which is born of the flesh is flesh [the physical is merely physical], and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked and stubborn people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are always actively resisting the Holy Spirit. You are doing just as your fathers did. [Ex 33:3, 5; Num 27:14; Is 63:10; Jer 6:10; 9:26]

1 Thessalonians 5:19

Do not quench [subdue, or be unresponsive to the working and guidance of] the [Holy] Spirit.