Topic
Generation To Generation
100 verses · ranked by helpfulness
One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.
Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, — read the full passage →
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, — read the full passage →
This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.
We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.
For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many. — read the full passage →
I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them. — read the full passage →
All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your seed, because you have obeyed my voice.”
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →
Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Most certainly I tell you, this generationwill not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,
Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob. Selah.
He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”
Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”
But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →
and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:
Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
But he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.”
that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:
Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.
His seed will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,” — read the full passage →
and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →
I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →
For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.
The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.
that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you; you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
The generation to come, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;
I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”
The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue:
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes. — read the full passage →
Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ;
Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. — read the full passage →
“To what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like?
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn’t know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; — read the full passage →
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. — read the full passage →
Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): — read the full passage →
Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, — read the full passage →
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: WEB.