Bible Verses About Generational Conflict

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.

Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.

But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,

Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?

And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.

And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.

And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.

And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?