Genesis 6:3
Genesis chapter 6 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And 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.
Context
v.2that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.
v.3This passage
v.4The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:19
Quench not the Spirit;
- Jude 1:14
And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
- Psalms 78:39
And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
- John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
- Nehemiah 9:30
Yet many years didst thou bear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
- Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, andhimself fought against them.