Genesis 6:3 - New International Version (Anglicised)

Then the Lord said, ‘My Spirit will not contend with humans for ever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then the Lord said, My Spirit shall not forever dwell and strive with man, for he also is flesh; but his days shall yet be 120 years.

American Standard Version (1901)

And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

Common English Bible

The LORD said, “My breath will not remain in humans forever, because they are flesh. They will live one hundred twenty years.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And God said: "My spirit shall not remain in man forever, because he is flesh. And so his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh; and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Genesis 6:3 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

Nehemiah 9:30

For many years you were patient with them. By your Spirit you warned them through your prophets. Yet they paid no attention, so you gave them into the hands of the neighbouring peoples.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

Psalm 90:10

Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

Isaiah 5:4

What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad?

Isaiah 57:16

I will not accuse them for ever, nor will I always be angry, for then they would faint away because of me – the very people I have created.

Isaiah 63:10

Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned and became their enemy and he himself fought against them.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore this is what the Lord says: “I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:7

From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey me.’

Numbers 11:17

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

John 3:6

Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.

Acts 7:51

‘You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: you always resist the Holy Spirit!

1 Thessalonians 5:19

Do not quench the Spirit.