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 shall know what is for man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he will make them as a shadow? for who shall announce to man what shall be after him under the sun?
Genesis 5:3
And Adam shall live thirty and one hundred years, and shall beget in his likeness, according to his image, and will call his name Seth.
Genesis 11:20
And Reu will live two and thirty years, and he will beget Serug.
Genesis 36:9
And these the generations of Esau, the father of Adam, in mount Seir.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob will say to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning, thirty and a hundred years: little and evil were the days of the years of my life, and they reached not the days of the years of the life of my fathers in their sojournings.
Exodus 1:6
And Joseph will die, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
Exodus 6:16
And these the names of the sons of Levi, according to their generation; Gershon, and Kohath and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi, seven and thirty and a hundred years.
Psalm 89:47
Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?
Psalm 90:9
For all our days turned away in thy wrath: we finished our years as a meditation
Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live forever?
But
Psalm 102:24
Saying, O my God, thou wilt not take me away in the half of my days: thy years in generations of generations.
Psalm 104:5
Founding the earth upon her bases, she shall not be moved forever and even
Psalm 119:90
To generation and generation thy faithfulness: thou didst prepare the earth and it will stand.
Matthew 24:35
The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words should not pass away.
2 Peter 3:10
And the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a loud noise, and the elements, suffering from excessive heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burned down.
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Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live forever?