And the LORD said, "My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever, because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years."

the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

So they got rid of the foreign gods among them and worshiped the LORD, but He became weary of Israel's misery.

How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert.

For 40 years I was disgusted with that generation; I said, 'They are a people whose hearts go astray; they do not know My ways.'

Isaiah said, "Listen, house of David! Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men? Will you also try the patience of my God?

You have not bought Me aromatic cane with silver, or satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.

But they rebelled, and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He became their enemy [and] fought against them.

Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged Me with all these things, I will also bring your actions down on your own head." [This is] the declaration of the Lord God. "Haven't you committed immoral acts in addition to all your abominations?

After looking around at them with anger and sorrow at the hardness of their hearts, He told the man, "Stretch out your hand." So he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

"You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your forefathers did, so do you.

Don't stifle the Spirit.

for 40 years. Therefore I was provoked with this generation and said, "They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known My ways."

And with whom was He "provoked for 40 years"? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert?

In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation-- in Him when you believed-- were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.

He is the down payment of our inheritance, for the redemption of the possession, to the praise of His glory.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death. Death, where are your barbs? Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

But when these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near!"

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through His Spirit who lives in you.

And not only that, but we ourselves who have the Spirit as the firstfruits-- we also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

But from Him you are in Christ Jesus, who for us became wisdom from God, as well as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,

Now when this corruptible is clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal is clothed with immortality, then the saying that is written will take place: Death has been swallowed up in victory.