Bible Verses About Generational Promises
Bible verses about Generational Promises
Discover what the Bible says about generational promises.
Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.
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And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Scripture Passages
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 we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.
For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
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.
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.
That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
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.
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.
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.
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:
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
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.
Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
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.
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.