65 Bible Verses about Generation Wiser And Weaker

2 Timothy 3:1-17 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ...

Luke 16:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.

Daniel 12:4 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ...

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Ephesians 5:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

Acts 2:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Psalm 102:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord:

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

1 Corinthians 9:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Hebrews 1:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.

Romans 13:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

Acts 2:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Matthew 24:1-25:46 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...

Matthew 1:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.

Psalm 90:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Genesis 9:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.

Genesis 2:15-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Revelation 7:1-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree. Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea, saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.” And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel: 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed, 12,000 from the tribe of Reuben, 12,000 from the tribe of Gad, ...

Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ...

2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

2 Thessalonians 2:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

Philippians 3:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 24:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

Matthew 24:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

Ecclesiastes 10:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Proverbs 9:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

Deuteronomy 34:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.

Genesis 11:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.

Genesis 5:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 12:1-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, ...

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Romans 1:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Luke 21:1-38 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, ...

Luke 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

Matthew 24:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

Matthew 24:3-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. ...

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Psalm 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,

Job 19:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

2 Samuel 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul became weaker and weaker.

Genesis 25:7-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

These are the days of the years of Abraham's life, 175 years. Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 23:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

Acts 8:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful