Quotes about Generations
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
- Proverbs 13:22
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.
- Proverbs 17:6
An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.
- Proverbs 20:21
There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.
- Ecclesiastes 1:11
There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 4:16
She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.
- Isaiah 13:20
So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.
- Isaiah 22:24
He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation.
- Isaiah 34:17
The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
- Isaiah 38:19
Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—the first and the last—I am He.”
- Isaiah 41:4
Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”
- Isaiah 48:19
For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
- Isaiah 51:8