Zechariah 1:5

God asks pointedly: the fathers and even the prophets have died, but His word endures. Human generations pass, yet God's word outlasts them all.

Cross-references · 11

• 2 Pet 3:2–4that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:
• Eccl 12:5yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
• Job 14:10–12But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
• Heb 9:27Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
• Eccl 12:7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• Ps 90:10The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
• Acts 13:36For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
• Eccl 9:1–3For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
• John 8:52Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’
• Heb 7:23–24Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.
• Eccl 1:4One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.

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