Ecclesiastes 1:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

Cross References

Psalm 104:5

You set the earth on its foundations, so that it shall never be shaken.

Zechariah 1:5

Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for mortals while they live the few days of their vain life, which they pass like a shadow? For who can tell them what will be after them under the sun?

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”

Psalm 125:1

Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever.

Luke 20:32

Finally the woman also died.