Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
One generation
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Bible References
One generation
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Genesis 5:3
And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot [a son] in his own likeness, according to his image, and called his name Seth.
Genesis 11:20
And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.
Genesis 36:9
And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my father
Exodus 1:6
And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
Exodus 6:16
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty-seven years.
Psalm 89:47
O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
Psalm 90:9
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
But
Psalm 102:24
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days. Thy years are throughout all generations.
Psalm 104:5
who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be moved forever.
Psalm 119:90
Thy faithfulness is to all generations. Thou have established the earth, and it abides.
Matthew 24:35
The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words may, no, not pass away.
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of Lord will come as a thief in the night, during which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements, being intensely hot, will be disintegrated, and the earth and the works in it will be destroyed by fire.
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Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?