Genesis 6:3

Genesis 6:3 in other translations

What does Genesis 6:3 mean?

Genesis 6:3 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Genesis 6:3

• Nehemiah 9:30

  Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.

• Isaiah 63:10

  But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

• 1 Peter 3:18-20

  For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

• Jeremiah 11:11

  Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.

• Galatians 5:16-24

  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, …

• Psalms 78:39

  For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

• Acts 7:51

  Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:19

  Quench not the 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. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. …

• Numbers 11:17

  And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

• John 3:6

  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

• Isaiah 5:4

  What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

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Context

• Genesis 6:2

  That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

• Genesis 6:3

  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.

• Genesis 6:4

  There were giants 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 became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

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