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Genesis 6:3

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.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And the Lord said,.... Not to Noah, as in Gen 6:13 for, as yet, he is not taken notice of, or any discourse addressed to him; but rather to or within himself, he said what follows, or thus concluded,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Genesis 6:1-8

- The Growth of Sin 3. דון dı̂yn “be down, strive, subdue, judge.” בשׁגם bāshagām “inasmuch, as also.” The rendering “in their error” requires the pointing בשׁגם beshāgām, and the plural form of…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

My 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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

This comes in here as a token of God's displeasure at those who married strange wives; he threatens to withdraw from them his Spirit, whom they had grieved by such marriages, contrary to their…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

And the lord said It is not evident in this verse, why the Lord should pass a sentence of condemnation upon man. In the two preceding verses, it is not man, but "the sons of God," whose depravity has…