Bible Verses About Generational Heritage

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

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.

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.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

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.

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

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

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

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

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.

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

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

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.

And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,

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

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.

And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.

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.

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

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.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

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

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

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

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

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

He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.