80 Bible Verses about Generations

And Jehovah will say to Noah, Come thou, and all thy house into the ark, for thee I saw just to my face in this generation.

And Joseph will die, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

And also all that generation were gathered to its fathers; and another generation will arise after them not knowing Jehovah, and also the works which he did to Israel

This the generation seeking him, searching out thy face O Jacob. Silence.

And they shall not be as their fathers, a generation turning away and bitter, a generation it prepared not its heart, and its spirit was not firm with God.

His seed shall be great in the earth: the generation of the upright shall be praised.

O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Was I the desert to Israel? If a land of thick darkness? wherefore said my people, We had dominion, we will come no more to thee?

Shave thy consecration and cast away, and lift up a lamentation upon the lips; for Jehovah rejected and cast out the generation of his wrath.

To what shall I liken this generation I it is like little boys sitting in market-places, and calling to their companions,

And the Lord said, To whom shall I liken the men of this generation? and to whom are they like?

And from the fig tree learn a parable; When already her young shoot should be tender, and the leaves should spring forth, ye know that summer is near: So also ye, when ye should see all these things, know ye that it is near at the doors. Truly I say to you, That this generation should not pass away, till all these things should be.

And from the fig tree learn ye a parable; When its young shoot be tender, and cause the leaves to grow, ye know that summer is near. So also ye, when ye see these things done, ye know that it is near at the door. Truly I say to you, that this generation should not pass away, till all these things should be.

And he spake to them a parable; See the fig tree, and all trees; When they should already throw forth, seeing of yourselves ye know that summer is already near. So also ye, when ye see these being, know that the kingdom of God is near.read more.
Truly I say to you, That this generation should not pass away, even till all things should be.

And with many other words he appealed earnestly and besought, saying, Be ye saved from this crooked generation.

For David, truly having served his own generation by the will of God, was set to sleep, and was added to his fathers, and saw corruption:

Do ye all things without murmurings and discussions: That ye be complete and pure, children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world; Holding on to the word of life; for boasting to me in the day of Christ, for I ran not in vain, nor was I wearied in vain.

Thou, O Jehovah, shalt dwell forever; thy throne to generation and generation.

And they shall fear thee with the sun and before the moon, generation of generations.

Thy kingdom a kingdom of all times, and thy dominion in every generation and generation.

His signs, how many! and his wonders, how mighty! his kingdom, an eternal kingdom, and his dominion with generation and generation.

And to him being able to do above all things more abundantly above what we ask or think, according to the power being energetic in us, To him the glory in the church in Christ Jesus to all generations of the times of times. Amen.

And God will yet say to Moses, Thou shalt say to the sons of Israel, Jehovah the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaak and the God of Jacob, sent me to you: this my name for eternity, and this my remembrance to generation and generation.

And God will say, This is a sign of the covenant which I give between me and between you, and between every breathing thing living which is with you for future generations.

And the son of eight days shall be circumcised, every male of your generations being born in the house, and he bought with silver, from every son of the stranger which is not of thy seed.

And ye watched the unleavened; for in this self-same day I brought forth your armies out of the land of Egypt and watch ye this day for your generations a law forever.

Thou shalt not worship to them, and thou shalt not serve them: for I am Jehovah thy God, a jealous God, striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth, to them hating me;

Thou shalt not worship to them, and thou shalt not serve them; for I Jehovah thy God, a jealous God, striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and the fourth for hating me,

And the sons of Israel shall watch the Sabbath to do the Sabbath for their generation, a covenant forever.

Every male of the sons of Aaron shall eat it A law forever for your generations, from the sacrifices of Jehovah; all which touch upon them shall be holy.

And keep it a festival to Jehovah seven days in the year: a law forever to your generations; in the seventh month shall ye keep it

Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, They made to them fringes of flowers upon the wings of their garment for their generations; and they gave upon the fringes of the wing a thread of cerulean purple;

And these were to you for laws of judgment to your generations in all your dwellings.

And said, Another generation of your sons who shall rise up from after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a land afar off, and they saw the blows of that land, and the sicknesses which Jehovah made sick in it;

But this a witness between us and between you, and between our generations after us, to serve the service of Jehovah before him with our burnt-offerings and with our sacrifices and with our peace-offerings; and your sons shall not say, To-morrow, to our sons, not to you, a part in Jehovah.

He remembered his covenant forever, the word he commanded to a thousand generations.

Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall be laid waste; none passing through it forever to forever.

For this the inhabitans of the deserts shall dwell with the islands, and the daughters of the ostrich shall dwell in her: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; and she shall not be dwelt in even to generation and generation.

And Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord. And my Spirit rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he looked upon the humiliation of his servant; for, behold, from now shall all generations deem me happyread more.
For the powerful one has done great things for me; and his name holy. And his mercy to generations of generations to those fearing him.

Rouse up, rouse up, put on strength, thou arm of Jehovah; rouse up as the days of old, of everlasting generations. Was it not with him cutting off Rahab, wounding the sea monster?

Remember the days of eternity; Discern the years of generation and generation: Ask thy father, and he will announce to thee; Thy old men, and they shall say to thee.

For ask now to the first generation, and prepare to seek their fathers:

Who made and did, calling the generations from the beginning? I Jehovah, the first, and with the last; I am he.

And they shall build the perpetual wastes; they shall raise up the former desolations, and they renewed the cities of the waste, the desolations of generation and generation.

By which ye, reading, can perceive My understanding in the mystery of Christ,) Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit:

Of which I was a servant, according to the stewardship of God, given to me for you, to complete the word of God; The mystery hid from times immemorial, and from generations, and now has been manifested to his holy ones:

Only watch to thyself and watch thy soul greatly, lest thou. shalt forget the words which thine eyes saw, and lest they shall remove from thy heart all the days of thy life: and make them known to thy sons and to the sons of thy sons.

And these words which I command thee to do shall be upon thy heart; And sharpen them to thy sons, and speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down and in thy rising up.

A seed shall serve him; it shall be numbered to Jehovah for a generation.

And also even to old age and grayness, O God, thou wilt not forsake me; till I shall announce thine arm to the generation, thy strength to every one who shall come:

Instruction to Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the sayings of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter enigmas from ancient time: Which we heard and we shall know them, and our fathers recounted to us.read more.
It was not hid from their sons, to a later generation recounting the praises of Jehovah and his strength, and his wonders which he did. For he raised up a testimony in Jacob and set a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to make them known to their sons: So that a later generation shall know; sons shall be born, they shall rise up and recount to their sons. And they shall set their hope in God, and they shall not forget the works of God, and they shall watch his commands. And they shall not be as their fathers, a generation turning away and bitter, a generation it prepared not its heart, and its spirit was not firm with God.

And we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture: we will confess to thee forever: to generation and generation we will recount thy praise.

Therefore all the generations from Abraham to David, fourteen generations; and from David to the transferring of Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the transferring of Babylon to Christ, fourteen generations.

And Jehovah will pass by before him, and Jehovah will call, Jehovah God merciful and compassionate, deferring anger, and much in kindness and truth, Watching kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression and sin, and acquitting, will not cleanse; striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and upon the sons' sons, upon the third and the fourth.

Jehovah, slow to anger and of great kindness, lifting up iniquity and transgression and cleansing, will not cleanse; striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third, and upon the fourth.

And know thou that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, watching the covenant and the kindness to those loving him, and to those watching his commands to the thousandth generation:

The corrupted shall not come in to the gathering of Jehovah; also the tenth generation to him shall not come into the gathering of Jehovah. An Ammonite and a Moabite shall not come into the gathering of Jehovah; also the tenth generation to them shall not come in to the gathering of Jehovah, even forever:

And Jehovah will say to Johu, Because thou didst good to do the straight in mine eyes, according to all which was in my heart thou didst to the house of Ahab, thy son of the descendants of the fourth generation shall sit to thee upon the throne of Israel.

This the word of Jehovah which he spake to Jehu, saying, The fourth sons shall sit to thee upon the throne of Israel, and it will be so.

Remember ye forever his covenant; the word be commanded to a thousand generations;

And Job will live after this a hundred and forty years, and he will see his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.

And the anger of Jehovah will kindle against Israel, and he will cause them to wander in the desert forty years, till the finishing of all the generation having done evil in the eyes of Jehovah.

And Jehovah will hear the voice of your words, and he will be angry, and he will swear, saying, If a man among these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I sware to give to your fathers, Except Caleb, son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him I will give the land which he trod upon it, and to his sons, because that he filled up after Jehovah.

And the days which we came from Kadesh-Barnea till we passed over the valley Zered, thirty and eight years; till all the generation of men of war was finished from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah sware to them.

He acted wickedly to him; not his sons their blot: A generation perverted and crooked.

Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit says, If to day ye hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the exasperation, in the day of trial in the desert: Where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.read more.
Wherefore I was offended with that generation and I said, They always wander in heart; and they knew not my ways. As I aware in my wrath, If they shall come into my rest.)

For he is our God, and we the people of his feeding and the sheep of his hand. This day if ye will, hear to his voice. Ye shall not harden your heart as the strife, as the day of trial in the desert: When your fathers tempted me, they proved me; also they saw my works.read more.
Forty years I shall loathe to the generation, and saying, A people they wandering in heart, and they knew not my ways: For I sware in mine anger if they shall come in to my rest

For whoever should be ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; also the Son of man shall be ashamed of him, when he should come in the glory of the Father with the holy messengers.

And he having answered, said to them, An evil generation and an adulteress seeks a sign; and no sign shall be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. For as Jonas was in the whale's belly three days and three nights; so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. The Ninevite men shall rise up in judgment with this generation, and condemn it: for they repented at the proclamation of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas here.read more.
The queen of the South shall be raised up in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; for she came from the end of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon here.

And crowds being collected, he began to say, This is an evil generation: it seeks a sign; and no sign shall be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninevites, so shall be the Son of man to this generation. The queen of the south shall be raised up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, more than Solomon here.read more.
The Ninevite men shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it: for they repented at the proclamation of Jonas; and, behold, more than Jonas here.

And when the unclean spirit has gone out from a man, he passes through sterile places, seeking rest, and finds not. Then says he, I will return into my house, whence I came out; and having come, he finds vacant; having been swept, and put in order. Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits, worse than he, and having come in, they dwell there: and the last things of that man are worse than the first. So also shall it be to this evil generation.

An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; and no sign shall be given her, except the sign of Jonas the prophet. And having left them, he departed.

And having sighed deeply in spirit, he says, Why seeks this generation for a sign Verily I say to you, shall a sign be given to this generation.

And Jesus, having answered, said, O faithless and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you how long shall I endure you? bring him here to me.

And he having answered, says to him, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you how long shall I bear with you? bring him to me.

And Jesus having answered said, O faithless and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you, and endure you I Bring hither thy son.

Serpents, generations of vipers, how would ye flee from the judgment of hell? Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, and the wise, and scribes: and of them shall ye kill and crucify; and of them shall ye chastise in your assemblies, and drive out from city to city, So that all the just blood shed upon the earth might come upon you, from the blood of just Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye killed between the temple and altar.read more.
Truly I say to you, All these shall come upon this generation.

Woe to you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Surely ye testify and assent to your fathers' works: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their tombs. And for this said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and the sent, and of them shall they kill and drive out:read more.
That the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world be required of this generation; From the blood of Abel even to the blood of Zacharias perishing between the altar and house: yea, I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.

And he said to the disciples, The days come when ye shall eagerly desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see. And they shall say to you, Behold here, or; behold there: go not away, nor pursue. For as lightning, flashing out from that under heaven, shines to that under heaven; so also shall be the Son of man in his day.read more.
And first must he suffer many things, and be disapproved of by this generation.