Bible Verses About Generations
This collection includes 50 passages about Generations. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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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.
Scripture Passages
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
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 these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
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.
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.
That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
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.
And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac:
And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.
But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.
And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
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.
As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
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.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it;
And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
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