Quotes About Legacy

May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children.

In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,

But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.

Let this be written for the generation to come, so that a people not yet created may praise the LORD.

The children of Your servants will dwell securely, and their descendants will be established before You.”

But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their childrenís children—

He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—

the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.

He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

Surely he will never be shaken; the righteous man will be remembered forever.

He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.

Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures.

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in oneís youth.

Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.

The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.

If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”

Your name, O LORD, endures forever, Your renown, O LORD, through all generations.

One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—