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 knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell 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 likeness, after 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 Edom, in mount Seir.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.
Exodus 1:6
And Joseph died, and all his brethren, 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 and thirty-seven years.
Psalm 89:47
Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?
Psalm 90:9
For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought.
Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
But
Psalm 102:24
I said, My God, take me not away in the midst of my days! ... Thy years are from generation to generation.
Psalm 104:5
He laid the earth upon its foundations: it shall not be removed for ever.
Psalm 119:90
Thy faithfulness is from generation to generation: thou hast established the earth, and it standeth.
Matthew 24:35
The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall in no wise pass away.
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
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Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?