Genesis 6:1-4

Increasing Corruption on Earth

1 When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, z "My Spirit shall not abide in 1 man forever, a for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years." 4 The Nephilim 2 were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

  1. Cross References
    1 Peter 3:19 - 20
    In which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison.
    Nehemiah 9:30
    Many years you bore with them and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
    Galatians 5:16 - 17
    But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 78:39
    He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.
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