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 do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
And God created the great sea monsters, and every living soul that moves with which the waters swarm, after their kind, and every winged fowl 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.
For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have 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 begot a son in his likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth.
One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons.
From Thematic Bible
Heredity » General references to
keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing 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; for thou hast destroyed thy land, hast slain thy people. Of the seed of evildoers no mention shall be made 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, and I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread:
His seed shall be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
Hand for hand! an evil man shall not be held innocent; but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
Heredity » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
for Jehovah loveth judgment, and will not forsake 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; for thou hast destroyed thy land, hast slain thy people. Of the seed of evildoers no mention shall be made for ever.
Offspring of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being wicked? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread;
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
