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And the LORD said to Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,

This [was] the word of the LORD which he spoke to Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth [generation]. And so it came to pass.

Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

This [is] the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.

Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shown thy strength to [this] generation, [and] thy power to every one [that] is to come.

Forty years long was I grieved with [this] generation, and said, It [is] a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.

But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like to children sitting in the markets, and calling to their fellows,

The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah [is] here.

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon [is] here.

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

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

Verily I say to you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things shall be fulfilled.

And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek for a sign? Verily I say to you, There shall no sign be given to this generation.

Whoever therefore shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also will the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

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

And the Lord said, To what then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

And when the people were assembled in crowds, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of man be to this generation.