Bible Verses About Generational Legacy

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

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.

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.

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

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.

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;

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.

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

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

For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

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

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

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

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

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.

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

His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

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.

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.