Genesis 6:3

Good News Translation

Then the Lord said, “I will not allow people to live forever; they are mortal. From now on they will live no longer than 120 years.”

Cross References

Genesis 6:2

some of the heavenly beings saw that these young women were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked.

Nehemiah 9:30

Year after year you patiently warned them. You inspired your prophets to speak, but your people were deaf, so you let them be conquered by other nations.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were only mortal beings, like a wind that blows by and is gone.

Psalm 90:10

Seventy years is all we have— eighty years, if we are strong; yet all they bring us is trouble and sorrow; life is soon over, and we are gone.

Isaiah 5:4

Is there anything I failed to do for it? Then why did it produce sour grapes and not the good grapes I expected?

Isaiah 57:16

I gave my people life, and I will not continue to accuse them or be angry with them forever.

Isaiah 63:10

but they rebelled against him and made his holy spirit sad. So the Lord became their enemy and fought against them.

Jeremiah 11:11

So now I, the Lord, warn them that I am going to bring destruction on them, and they will not escape. And when they cry out to me for help, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:7

When I brought their ancestors out of Egypt, I solemnly warned them to obey me, and I have kept on warning the people until this day.

Numbers 11:17

I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the spirit I have given you and give it to them. Then they can help you bear the responsibility for these people, and you will not have to bear it alone.

John 3:6

A person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the Spirit.

Acts 7:51

“How stubborn you are!” Stephen went on to say. “How heathen your hearts, how deaf you are to God's message! You are just like your ancestors: you too have always resisted the Holy Spirit!

1 Thessalonians 5:19

Do not restrain the Holy Spirit;