Genesis 6:3
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Genesis 6:3 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Genesis 6:3 is a verse from the book of Genesis in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundr..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Genesis 6:3 — KJV
“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 6:3 (KJV)
Genesis 6:3 in Context — About the Book of Genesis
Genesis is the book of beginnings — creation, the fall, the flood, and the call of Abraham. It answers the oldest questions: where we came from, why the world is broken, and how God begins His rescue plan through one family. Every major theme in the Bible is planted here as a seed.
Cross-References for Genesis 6:3
“And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.”
Shares key themes with Genesis 6:3: lord, also, hundred
“And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.”
Shares key themes with Genesis 6:3: lord, hundred, twenty
“If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.”
Shares key themes with Genesis 6:3: also, days, hundred
“And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.”
Shares key themes with Genesis 6:3: lord, hundred, years
“Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.”
Shares key themes with Genesis 6:3: lord, twenty, years
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