Isaiah 57:16

Modern English Version

For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before Me, and the souls whom I have made.

Cross References

Genesis 6:3

The Lord said, “My Spirit will not always strive with man, for he is flesh; yet his days will be one hundred and twenty years.”

2 Samuel 24:16

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the calamity. He said to the angel who was annihilating the people, “Enough! Now stay your hand.” The angel of the Lord was at the threshing floor 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 forever? Will You prolong Your anger to all generations?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life breath returns to God who gave it.

Isaiah 27:8

You fought with them by banishing them, by driving them away. He has expelled them on the day of the east wind with His fierce wind.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore, the Lord longs to be gracious to you, and therefore, He waits on high to have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of justice; how blessed are all who long for Him.

Isaiah 42:5

Thus says God the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and that which comes out of it, who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk in it:

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O  Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter; and we all are the work of Your hand.

Jeremiah 10:24

O  Lord, correct me, but with justice, not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

Jeremiah 3:5

Shall He reserve His anger forever? Shall He keep it to the end?” Behold, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil things that you could.

Jeremiah 38:16

So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As the Lord lives, who made our souls, I surely will not put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand of these men who 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 who sins shall die.

Amos 1:11

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword, and repressed all pity; his anger tore with no ceasing, and his wrath persisted with no end.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, bearing iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of His inheritance? He does not remain angry forever, because He delights in benevolence.

Zechariah 12:1

The oracle of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, the One who stretches out the heavens and establishes the earth and forms the spirit of man within him:

Numbers 16:22

They fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin and You will be angry with all the assembly?”

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we have had human fathers, and they corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?