Bible Verses About Generational Time

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.

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

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

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

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

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.

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:

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

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.

These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spake with Moses in mount Sinai.

And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

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

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

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

And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

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

Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

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

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

For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.

Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,

Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

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

Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.

This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.

These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.