³ And the Lord said, ^(A)“My Spirit shall not ^(B)strive^[a] with man forever, ^(C)for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

^53 (A)who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.”

²⁵ who exchanged ^(A)the truth of God ^(B)for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to ^(C)vile passions. For even their ^[a]women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. ²⁷ Likewise also the ^[b]men, leaving the natural use of the ^[c]woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

²⁸ And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things ^(D)which are not fitting;

⁴ For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted ^(A)the heavenly gift, and ^(B)have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,