[ 6:4] And the Lord God said, My Spirit shall certainly not remain among these men forever, because they are flesh, but their days shall be one hundred and twenty years.

[ 6:7] that God took it to heart that He had made man upon the earth, and He pondered it deeply.

And they put away the strange gods from the midst of them, and served the Lord only, and His soul was pained for the trouble of Israel.

How often did they provoke Him in the wilderness, [and] anger Him in a dry land!

Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways.

And he said, Hear now, O house of David; is it a little thing for you to contend with men? And how do you contend against the Lord?

Neither have you purchased for Me victims for silver, neither have I desired the fat of your sacrifices; but you stood before Me in your sins, and in your iniquities.

But they disobeyed, and provoked His Holy Spirit; so He turned to be an enemy, He Himself contended against them.

Because you did not remember the days of your youth, and you grieved Me in all these things; therefore, behold, I have recompensed your ways upon your head, says the Lord; for thus have you wrought ungodliness above all your [other] iniquities.

And looking around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.

"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, you also do.

Do not quench the Spirit.

Therefore I was indignant with that generation, and said, 'They go astray in their heart; and they did not know My ways.'

And with whom was He indignant forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

in whom also you, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of His glory.

I will deliver [them] out of the power of Hades, and will redeem them from death. O death, where is your punishment? O Hades, where is your sting? Comfort is hidden from My eyes.

Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near."

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit indwelling in you.

And not only that, but also [we] ourselves having the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting adoption, the redemption of our body.

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

So when this corruptible should put on incorruption, and this mortal should put on immortality, then will come to pass the word which was written: "Death was swallowed up in victory."