5 Bible Verses about Heredity
Most Relevant Verses
So His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned--this man or his parents--that he was born blind?"
and do not imagine that you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our forefather,' for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.
Whatever has been born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever has been born of the Spirit is spirit.
What follows? This comparison. Through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and so death passed to all mankind in turn, in that all sinned.
One of their own number--a Prophet who is a countryman of theirs--has said, "Cretans are always liars, dangerous animals, idle gluttons."
From Thematic Bible
Heredity » General references to
Heredity » Beneficent influence of the righteous
Heredity » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
O vipers' brood, how can you speak what is good when you are evil? For it is from the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks.