Bible Verses About Generational Continuity

But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

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.

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.

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

But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the Lord before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the Lord.

Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

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.

And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.

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

One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

Now therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;

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

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

Therefore now, Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.

He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;

As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.

His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

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

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.

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.

Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.

Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.

This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.

And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: