Genesis 6:3

New Living Translation

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not put up with humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years.”

Cross References

Genesis 6:2

The sons of God saw the beautiful women and took any they wanted as their wives.

Nehemiah 9:30

In your love, you were patient with them for many years. You sent your Spirit, who warned them through the prophets. But still they wouldn’t listen! So once again you allowed the peoples of the land to conquer them.

Psalm 78:39

For he remembered that they were merely mortal, gone like a breath of wind that never returns.

Psalm 90:10

Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty. But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we fly away.

Isaiah 5:4

What more could I have done for my vineyard that I have not already done? When I expected sweet grapes, why did my vineyard give me bitter grapes?

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not fight against you forever; I will not always be angry. If I were, all people would pass away— all the souls I have made.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled against him and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he became their enemy and fought against them.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am going to bring calamity upon them, and they will not escape. Though they beg for mercy, I will not listen to their cries.

Jeremiah 11:7

For I solemnly warned your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, “Obey me!” I have repeated this warning over and over to this day,

Numbers 11:17

I will come down and talk to you there. I will take some of the Spirit that is upon you, and I will put the Spirit upon them also. They will bear the burden of the people along with you, so you will not have to carry it alone.

John 3:6

Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.

Acts 7:51

“You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? That’s what your ancestors did, and so do you!

1 Thessalonians 5:19

Do not stifle the Holy Spirit.