Quotes About Generation

when we understand that the Bible comes to us as a trust both from God and from the people of God. It is the record of holy encounters between people and God, encounters that have been reckoned to be decisive and compelling, and that have been preserved from generation

And by that habit of submission, with which we are only too familiar, the thought of the next generation retains this religious twist, which is at once servile and authoritative; for authority and servility walk ever hand in hand.

And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,

“Indeed,” he said, “a hand was lifted up toward the throne of the LORD. The LORD will war against Amalek from generation to generation.”

The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.

“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,

The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.

Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.

His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.

And Joshua raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones he circumcised. Until this time they were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.

After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel.

Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.

Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah

he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.

We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.

that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children

Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.

For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

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