Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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Bible References
Fathers
Exodus 20:5
Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, am a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third generation, and on the fourth, of those hating Me,
Jeremiah 16:12
Ye also have done evil above your fathers, And lo, ye are walking each after the stubbornness of his evil heart, So as not to hearken unto Me.
Jeremiah 31:29
In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.
Ezekiel 18:2
What -- to you, ye -- using this simile Concerning the ground of Israel, saying: Fathers do eat unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted?
Matthew 23:32
and ye -- ye fill up the measure of your fathers.
And are
Genesis 42:13
and they say, 'Thy servants are twelve brethren; we are sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and lo, the young one is with our father to-day, and the one is not.'
Job 7:8
The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes are upon me -- and I am not.
Jeremiah 31:15
Thus said Jehovah, A voice in Ramah is heard, wailing, weeping most bitter, Rachel is weeping for her sons, She hath refused to be comforted for her sons, because they are not.
Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers -- where are they? And the prophets -- to the age do they live?
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Jeremiah 31:29
In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.