Isaiah 57:16

Modern King James Version

For I will not contend forever, nor will I be always angry; for the spirit should fail before Me, and the souls I have made.

Cross References

Genesis 6:3

And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, in his erring; he is flesh. Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

2 Samuel 24:16

And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, Jehovah turned from the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, Enough! And stay your hand. And the angel of Jehovah 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 flesh, even of man?

Psalm 85:5

Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

Isaiah 27:8

By driving her away, you will contend with her; by sending her away, You punished her. He takes away by His rough wind, in the day of the east wind.

Isaiah 30:18

And so Jehovah waits to be gracious to you. And therefore He is exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For Jehovah is a God of judgment; blessed are all those who wait for Him.

Isaiah 42:5

So says Jehovah God, He who created the heavens and stretched them out, spreading out the earth and its offspring; He who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it.

Isaiah 64:8

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

Jeremiah 10:24

O Jehovah, correct me, but with judgment; not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

Jeremiah 3:5

Will He keep His anger forever? Will He keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done all the evil things you could do.

Jeremiah 38:16

Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As Jehovah lives, who made us this soul, I 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, also the soul of the son, they are Mine. The soul that sins, it shall die.

Amos 1:11

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, yea for four, I will not turn away from it. Because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pities, and his anger tore without end, and he kept his wrath forever.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not keep His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.

Zechariah 12:1

The burden of the Word of Jehovah for Israel, says Jehovah, who 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 upon their faces and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin and will You be angry with all the congregation?

Hebrews 12:9

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