Genesis 6:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.”

Cross References

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that they were fair, and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.

Nehemiah 9:30

Many years you were patient with them and warned them by your spirit through your prophets, yet they would not listen. Therefore you handed them over to the peoples of the lands.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and does not come again.

Psalm 90:10

The days of our life are seventy years or perhaps eighty, if we are strong; even then their span is only toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Isaiah 5:4

What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? When I expected it to yield grapes, why did it yield rotten grapes?

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not continually accuse, nor will I always be angry, for then the spirits would grow faint before me, even the souls that I have made.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit; therefore he became their enemy; he himself fought against them.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore, thus says the Lord, assuredly I am going to bring disaster upon them that they cannot escape; though they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:7

For I solemnly warned your ancestors when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, warning them persistently, even to this day, saying, “Obey my voice.”

Numbers 11:17

I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they shall bear the burden of the people along with you so that you will not bear it all by yourself.

John 3:6

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.

1 Thessalonians 5:19

Do not quench the Spirit.