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

Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

God also told Moses, "Say to the Israelites, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers-the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob-has sent me to you.' This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

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

After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

You, O LORD, will keep us; You will forever guard us from this generation.

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

You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, 'We are free to roam; we will come to You no more'?

To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:

The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.

The queen of the south will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there; and the final plight of that man is worse than the first. So will it be with this wicked generation."

Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened.

Jesus sighed deeply in His spirit and said, "Why does this generation demand a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation."

If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father's glory with the holy angels."

Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened.

"To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?

As the crowds were increasing, Jesus said, "This is a wicked generation. It demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.

For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.