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Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years."King James Bible
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.American Standard Version
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.Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith, 'My Spirit doth not strive in man -- to the age; in their erring they are flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.Genesis 6:3 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleMy spirit shall not always strive - It is only by the influence of the Spirit of God that the carnal mind can be subdued and destroyed; but those who wilfully resist and grieve that Spirit must be ultimately left to the hardness and blindness of their own hearts, if they do not repent and turn to God. God delights in mercy, and therefore a gracious warning is given. Even at this time the earth was ripe for destruction; but God promised them one hundred and twenty years' respite: if they repented in that interim, well; if not, they should be destroyed by a flood. See the note on Genesis 6:5 Treasury of Scripture Knowledge My. Numbers 11:17 And I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the spirit which is on you, and will put it on them... Nehemiah 9:30 Yet many years did you forbear them, and testified against them by your spirit in your prophets: yet would they not give ear... Isaiah 5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes... Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them. Jeremiah 11:7,11 For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day... Acts 7:51 You stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you. Galatians 5:16,17 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh... 1 Thessalonians 5:19 Quench not the Spirit. 1 Peter 3:18-20 For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh... Jude 1:14,15 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints... is. Psalm 78:39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passes away, and comes not again. 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 therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit... Galatians 5:16-24 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh... 1 Peter 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing... Genesis 6:3 Parallel Commentaries
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Galatians 5:16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Galatians 5:17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.
1 Peter 3:20 to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water,
Genesis 6:2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
Psalm 78:39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
Isaiah 57:16 I will not accuse them forever, nor will I always be angry, for then they would faint away because of me-- the very people I have created.
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