100 Bible Verses About Future Generations

We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.

The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.

And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.

And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?

Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you; so shall the Lord bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.

From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.

And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.

And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.

Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:

And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.

And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the Lord.

And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.

Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:

And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;

And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;

The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:

Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.

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

And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

And she called his name Joseph; and said, The Lord shall add to me another son.

And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

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.

Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.

And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:

And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

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

Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Thou wilt prolong the king’s life: and his years as many generations.

And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.

I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.

For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death?

Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.

They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.

He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

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:

Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;

And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

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 this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.

And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth–lehem.

Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,

And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.