Study Desk

This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.

And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.

But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.

Not one of the men of this wicked generation shall see the good land, which I promised with an oath to your fathers:

This was the word of the Lord, which he spoke to Jehu, saying: Thy children, to the fourth generation, shall sit upon the throne of Israel. And so it came to pass.

(11-8) Thou, O Lord, wilt preserve us: and keep us from this generation for ever.

(23-6) This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.

Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost.

But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like to children sitting in the market place.

The men of Ninive shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas. And behold a greater than Jonas here.

The queen of the south shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold a greater than Solomon here.

Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation.

Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

Amen I say to you that this generation shall not pass till all these things be done.

And sighing deeply in spirit, he saith: Why doth this generation seek a sign? Amen, I say to you, a sign shall not be given to this generation.

For whoever [fn] is ashamed [here and now] of Me and My words in this adulterous (unfaithful) and [preeminently] sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when He comes in the glory (splendor and majesty) of His Father with the holy angels.

Amen, I say to you that this generation shall not pass until all these things be done.

And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? And to what are they like?

And the multitudes running together, he began to say: This generation is a wicked generation. It asketh a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.