26 Bible Verses about Generations

But to whom shall I liken this generation? It is like little children sitting in the market-place, and calling to their comrades, and saying,

Then to whom shall I liken the men of this generation, and to whom are they like?

But learn the parable from the fig-tree: when her branch may now be tender, and she may grow out leaves, know that the summer is nigh. So you also, when you may see all these things know that it is at the doors. Truly I say unto you, This race may not pass away until all these things may be fulfilled.

But learn the parable from the fig-tree: when her branches may be now tender, and she may grow out leaves, know that the summer is nigh. So you also, when you may see these things take place, know that it is already at the doors. Truly I say unto you, this race may not pass away, until all these things may be fulfilled.

And He spoke a parable to them: Behold the fig-tree, and all the trees: when they may already put forth, seeing, know for yourselves that summer is nigh. So you also, when you see these things take place, know that the kingdom of God is nigh.read more.
Truly I say unto you, that this race may not pass away, until all these things shall be fulfilled.

And with many other words did he testify and exhort them, saying, Be saved from this wicked generation.

For David, indeed having served his own generation according to the will of God, went to sleep, and did see corruption:

Do all things without murmurings and disputatious; in order that you may be blameless and pure, the children of God, irreproachable, amid a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, having the word of life; unto my boasting in the day of Christ, because I did not run in vain, neither did I labor in vain.

And Mary said; My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour, because He looked upon the low state of his handmaiden.read more.
For behold from now all generations call me blessed; because the Mighty One did great things unto me, and His name is holy; and His mercy unto generation of generations to them that fear Him.

whose minister I became, according to the economy of God which was given to me unto you, to fulfill the word of God, the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from the generations: but is now made manifest to his saints,

Therefore all the generations from Abraham unto David are fourteen generations; from David unto the captivity of Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the captivity of Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

Therefore as the Holy Spirit says, This day if you hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness, whom our fathers tempted in proving me, and saw my works forty years.read more.
Therefore I was provoked with this generation, and I said, They do always err in their heart: and they have not known my way, as I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

For whosoever may be ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and wicked generation, the Son of man shall also be ashamed of him, when He may come in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.

He responding, said to them, A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and no sign shall be given unto it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was in the stomach of the whale three days and three nights, so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. The men of Nineveh will rise in judgment with this generation, and condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.read more.
The queen of the south will rise in judgment with this generation, and condemn it: because she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold a greater than Solomon is here.

And the multitudes being assembled, He began to say, This is a wicked generation: it seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so shall the Son of man also be a sign to this generation. The queen of the south will rise in judgment with this generation, and condemn them; because she came from the uttermost parts of the earth, to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.read more.
The men of Nineveh will rise in judgment with this generation, and condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold a greater than Jonah is here.

And when the unclean spirit may go out from the man, he goes through dry places seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, I will return to my own house whence I came out; and having come, he finds it empty, swept, and beautified. Then he goes, and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and having come in dwells there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So it will also be with this wicked generation.

A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign. And no sign shall be given it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah. And leaving them, He departed.

And groaning in spirit, He says, What sign does this generation seek after? truly I say unto you, No sign shall be given unto this generation.

And Jesus responding said: O, faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? bring him hither to me.

And He responding to them, says, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? Bring him hither to me.

And Jesus responding said, O ye faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and bear with you? Bring your son hither.

Ye serpents, generations of vipers, how can you escape from the judgment of hell? Therefore I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: you will kill and crucify some of them; and will scourge some of them in your synagogues, and will persecute them from city to city; in order that all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zachariah the son of the blessed, whom they slew between the temple and the altar, may come upon you.read more.
Truly I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

Woe unto you! because you build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Therefore you are witnesses and you consent unto the works of your fathers: because they slew them, and you build. Therefore the wisdom of God said, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will slay and persecute.read more.
In order that the blood of all the prophets poured out from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation; from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the house; yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.

And He said to the disciples, The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and will not see it. And they will say to you, Lo, here! lo, there! go not away, nor follow them. For as the lightning, flashing out of the one part under the heaven, gleams into the other part under heaven, so shall be the Son of man in His day.read more.
But it behooves Him first to suffer many things and to be set at nought by this generation.