8 Bible Verses about Heredity
Most Relevant Verses
And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?
and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:--
The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.
From Thematic Bible
Heredity » General references to
The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
keeping lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty , visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever.
Heredity » Beneficent influence of the righteous
In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence; And his children shall have a place of refuge.
I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread.
His seed shall be mighty upon earth: The generation of the upright shall be blessed.
Though hand join in hand, the evil man shall not be unpunished; But the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
Heredity » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
For Jehovah loveth justice, And forsaketh not his saints; They are preserved for ever: But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever.
Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Their fruit wilt thou destroy from the earth, And their seed from among the children of men.
