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Isaiah 57:16

For I will not accuse you forever,

nor will I always be angry;

for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—

the breath of life I have made.

Isaiah 57:16 BSB

Isaiah 57:16 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 11 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Micah 7:18 (11 votes) and Jeremiah 10:24 (9 votes). 41 other verses point back to it. It links with 17 other books, from Genesis 6 to Hebrews 12.

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Which verses does Isaiah 57:16 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Micah 7:1811 votes

    Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

  2. Jeremiah 10:249 votes

    Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

  3. Psalm 85:58 votes

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

  4. Psalm 103:9–168 votes

    He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities. …

  5. Hebrews 12:97 votes

    Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

  6. Psalm 78:38–396 votes

    And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath. He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

  7. Genesis 6:35 votes

    So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

  8. Numbers 16:225 votes

    But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”

  9. Job 34:14–155 votes

    If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath, all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

  10. Isaiah 42:54 votes

    This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

  11. Jeremiah 38:164 votes
  12. Ecclesiastes 12:72 votes

    before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

  13. Zechariah 12:12 votes

Which verses point to Isaiah 57:16?

The 10 strongest of 41.