8 Bible Verses about Heredity
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His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that caused him to be born blind?"
Don't think you can say to yourselves, "We have father Abraham!' because I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones!
So God created every kind of magnificent marine creature, every kind of living marine crawler with which the waters swarmed, and every kind of flying creature. And God saw how good it was.
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Just as sin entered the world through one man, and death resulted from sin, therefore everyone dies, because everyone has sinned.
"The daughters of Zelophehad are telling the truth. You are certainly to give to them a possession for an inheritance among their father's relatives. You are to pass on the inheritance of their father to them.
After Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son just like him, that is, according to his own likeness, and named him Seth.
One of their very own prophets said, "Liars ever, men of Crete, savage brutes that live to eat."
From Thematic Bible
Heredity » General references to
He graciously loves thousands, and forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. But he does not leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of the ancestors on their children, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation."
you will not be united with them in burial, for you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people. People will never mention the descendants of those who practice evil again!
Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin.
Heredity » Beneficent influence of the righteous
Rock-solid security is found in the fear of the LORD, and within it one's children find refuge.
I once was young and now I am old, but I have not seen a righteous person forsaken or his descendants begging for bread.
The righteous person lives a life of integrity; happy are his children who follow him!
His descendants will be powerful in the land, a generation of the upright who will be blessed.
Be sure of this: the wicked will not go unpunished, but the descendants of the righteous will go free.
Heredity » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
Indeed, the LORD loves justice, and he will not abandon his godly ones. They are kept safe forever, but the lawless will be chased away, and the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.
you will not be united with them in burial, for you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people. People will never mention the descendants of those who practice evil again!
You children of serpents! How can you say anything good when you are evil? The mouth speaks about what overflows from the heart.
If he has many children, their destiny is to die by the sword, and his descendants won't have enough food.
You will destroy their descendants from the earth, even their offspring from the ranks of mankind.
