Genesis 6:3

New Century Version

The Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain in human beings forever, because they are flesh. They will live only 120 years.”

Cross References

Genesis 6:2

When the sons of God saw that these girls were beautiful, they married any of them they chose.

Nehemiah 9:30

You were patient with them for many years and warned them by your Spirit through the prophets, but they did not pay attention. So you handed them over to other countries.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were only human, like a wind that blows and does not come back.

Psalm 90:10

Our lifetime is seventy years or, if we are strong, eighty years. But the years are full of hard work and pain. They pass quickly, and then we are gone.

Isaiah 5:4

What more could I have done for my vineyard than I have already done? Although I expected good grapes to grow, why were there only bad ones?

Isaiah 57:16

I will not accuse forever, nor will I always be angry, because then human life would grow weak. Human beings, whom I created, would die.

Isaiah 63:10

But they turned against him and made his Holy Spirit very sad. So he became their enemy, and he fought against them.

Jeremiah 11:11

So this is what the Lord says: ‘I will soon bring a disaster on the people of Judah which they will not be able to escape. They will cry to me for help, but I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:7

I warned your ancestors to obey me when I brought them out of Egypt. I have warned them again and again to this very day: “Obey me!”

Numbers 11:17

I will come down and speak with you there. I will take some of the Spirit that is in you, and I will give it to them. They will help you care for the people so that you will not have to care for them alone.

John 3:6

Human life comes from human parents, but spiritual life comes from the Spirit.

Acts 7:51

Stephen continued speaking: “You stubborn people! You have not given your hearts to God, nor will you listen to him! You are always against what the Holy Spirit is trying to tell you, just as your ancestors were.

1 Thessalonians 5:19

Do not hold back the work of the Holy Spirit.