Genesis 6:3

God's Word

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not struggle with humans forever, because they are flesh and blood. They will live 120 years.”

Cross References

Genesis 6:2

The sons of God saw that the daughters of other humans were beautiful. So they married any woman they chose.

Nehemiah 9:30

You were patient with them for many years. You warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. However, they wouldn’t listen. So you handed them over to the people in the surrounding nations.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were only flesh and blood, a breeze that blows and does not return.

Psalm 90:10

Each of us lives for 70 years— or even 80 if we are in good health. But the best of them ⌞bring⌟ trouble and misery. Indeed, they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Isaiah 5:4

What more could have been done for my vineyard than what I have already done for it? When I waited for it to produce good grapes, why did it produce only sour, wild grapes?

Isaiah 57:16

I will not accuse you forever. I will not be angry with you forever. Otherwise, the spirits, the lives of those I’ve made, would grow faint in my presence.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and offended his Holy Spirit. So he turned against them as their enemy; he fought against them.

Jeremiah 11:11

This is what the Lord says: I’m going to bring a disaster on them that they can’t escape. Although they will cry out to me, I won’t listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:7

I solemnly warned your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, and the warning still applies to you today. I solemnly warned them to obey me.

Numbers 11:17

I’ll come down and speak with you there. I’ll take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will help you take care of the people. You won’t have to take care of the people alone.

John 3:6

Flesh and blood give birth to flesh and blood, but the Spirit gives birth to things that are spiritual.

Acts 7:51

“How stubborn can you be? How can you be so heartless and disobedient? You’re just like your ancestors. They always opposed the Holy Spirit, and so do you!

1 Thessalonians 5:19

Don’t put out the Spirit’s fire.