8 Bible Verses about Heredity
Most Relevant Verses
and his disciples asked him, saying, 'Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?'
and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have -- Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,
And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that it is good.
that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.
because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;
'Rightly are the daughters of Zelophehad speaking; thou dost certainly give to them a possession of an inheritance in the midst of their father's brethren, and hast caused to pass over the inheritance of their father to them.
And Adam liveth an hundred and thirty years, and begetteth a son in his likeness, according to his image, and calleth his name Seth.
A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said -- 'Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'
From Thematic Bible
Heredity » General references to
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third generation, and on a fourth.'
Thou art not united with them in burial, For thy land thou hast destroyed, Thy people thou hast slain, Not named to the age is the seed of evil doers.
Heredity » Beneficent influence of the righteous
In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence, And to His sons there is a refuge.
Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.
The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!
Mighty in the earth is his seed, The generation of the upright is blessed.
Hand to hand, the wicked is not acquitted, And the seed of the righteous hath escaped.
Heredity » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.
Thou art not united with them in burial, For thy land thou hast destroyed, Thy people thou hast slain, Not named to the age is the seed of evil doers.
Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.
If his sons multiply -- for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread.
Their fruit from earth Thou destroyest, And their seed from the sons of men.
