Isaiah 57:16

American King James Version (1999)

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

Cross References

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.

2 Samuel 24:16

And when the angel stretched out his hand on Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now your hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing place of Araunah the Jebusite.

Job 12:10

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

Psalm 85:5

Will you be angry with us for ever? will you draw out your anger to all generations?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

Isaiah 27:8

In measure, when it shoots forth, you will debate with it: he stays his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

Isaiah 30:18

And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy on you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

Isaiah 42:5

Thus said God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

Jeremiah 10:24

O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

Jeremiah 3:5

Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done evil things as you could.

Jeremiah 38:16

So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD lives, that made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men that seek your life.

Ezekiel 18:4

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.

Amos 1:11

Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like to you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retains not his anger for ever, because he delights in mercy.

Zechariah 12:1

The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, said the LORD, which stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.

Numbers 16:22

And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be wroth with all the congregation?

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?