Genesis 6:3
Good News Translation
Then the LORD said, "I will not allow people to live forever; they are mortal. From now on they will live no longer than 120 years."

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

Contemporary English Version
Then the LORD said, "I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone forever. No one will live for more than 120 years."

New American Bible
Then the LORD said: My spirit shall not remain in human beings forever, because they are only flesh. Their days shall comprise one hundred and twenty years.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

My.

Numbers 11:17 That I may come down and speak with thee: and I will take of thy spirit, and will give to them, that they may bear with thee the burden of the people, and thou mayest not be burthened alone.

Nehemiah 9:30 And thou didst forbear with them for many years, and didst testify against them by thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets: and they heard not, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the people of the lands.

Isaiah 5:4 What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? was it that I looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it hath brought forth wild grapes?

Isaiah 63:10 But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

Jeremiah 11:7,11 For protesting I conjured your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt even to this day: rising early I conjured them, and said: Hearken ye to my voice: . . .

Acts 7:51 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also.

Galatians 5:16,17 I say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:19 Extinguish not the spirit.

1 Peter 3:18-20 Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit, . . .

Jude 1:14,15 Now of these Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints: . . .

is.

Psalm 78:39 And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh: and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 8:1-13 There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh. . . .

Galatians 5:16-24 I say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. . . .

1 Peter 3:20 Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.

Context
Corruption on the Earth
2The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose. 3And 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.4Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.…
Cross References
Galatians 5:16
I say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would.

1 Peter 3:20
Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.

Genesis 6:2
The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.

Psalm 78:39
And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry unto the end: because the spirit shall go forth from my face, and breathings I will make.

Genesis 6:2
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