Genesis 6:3

New International Reader's Version

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not struggle with human beings forever. They will have only 120 years to live.”

Cross References

Genesis 6:2

The sons of God saw that the daughters of human beings were beautiful. So they married any of them they chose.

Nehemiah 9:30

For many years you put up with them. By your Spirit you warned them through your prophets. In spite of that, they didn’t pay any attention. So you handed them over to the nations that were around them.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were only human. He remembered they were only a breath of air that drifts by and doesn’t return.

Psalm 90:10

We live to be about 70. Or we may live to be 80, if we stay healthy. But even our best days are filled with trouble and sorrow. The years quickly pass, and we are gone.

Isaiah 5:4

What more could I have done for my vineyard? I did everything I could. I kept looking for a crop of good grapes. So why did it produce only bad ones?

Isaiah 57:16

I will not find fault with my people forever. I will not always be angry with them. If I were, I would cause their spirits to grow weak. The people I created would faint away.

Isaiah 63:10

But they refused to obey him. They made his Holy Spirit sad. So he turned against them and became their enemy. He himself fought against them.

Jeremiah 11:11

So I say, ‘I will bring trouble on them. They will not be able to escape it. They will cry out to me. But I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:7

Long ago I brought your people up from Egypt. From that time until today, I warned them again and again. I said, “Obey me.”

Numbers 11:17

I will come down and speak with you there. I will take some of the power of the Spirit that is on you. And I will put it on them. They will share the responsibility of these people with you. Then you will not have to carry it alone.

John 3:6

People give birth to people. But the Spirit gives birth to spirit.

Acts 7:51

“You stubborn people! You won’t obey! You won’t listen! You are just like your people of long ago! You always oppose the Holy Spirit!

1 Thessalonians 5:19

Don’t try to stop what the Holy Spirit is doing.