8 Bible Verses about Heredity
Most Relevant Verses
His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi (Teacher), who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?”
and do not presume to say to yourselves [as a defense], ‘We have Abraham for our father [so our inheritance assures us of salvation]’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children (descendants) for Abraham.
God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind; and God saw that it was good and He affirmed and sustained it.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh [the physical is merely physical], and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all people [no one being able to stop it or escape its power], because they all sinned.
“The request of the daughters of Zelophehad is justified. You shall certainly give them a possession as an inheritance among their father’s brothers, and you shall transfer their father’s inheritance to them.
When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.
One of them [Epimenides, a Cretan], a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
From Thematic Bible
Heredity » General references to
I was brought forth in [a state of] wickedness;
In sin my mother conceived me [and from my beginning I, too, was sinful].
The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These go astray from birth, speaking lies [even twisted partial truths].
keeping mercy and lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; but He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting (avenging) the iniquity (sin, guilt) of the fathers upon the children and the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations [that is, calling the children to account for the sins of their fathers].”
“You will not be united with them in burial,
Because you have destroyed your land,
You have slain your people.
May the descendants of evildoers never be named!
Heredity » Beneficent influence of the righteous
In the [reverent] fear of the Lord there is strong confidence,
And His children will [always] have a place of refuge.
I have been young and now I am old,
Yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned
Or his descendants pleading for bread.
The righteous man who walks in integrity and lives life in accord with his [godly] beliefs—
How blessed [happy and spiritually secure] are his children after him [who have his example to follow].
His descendants will be mighty on earth;
The generation of the upright will be blessed.
Assuredly, the evil man will not go unpunished,
But the descendants of the righteous will be freed.
Heredity » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
For the Lord delights in justice
And does not abandon His saints (faithful ones);
They are preserved forever,
But the descendants of the wicked will [in time] be cut off.
“You will not be united with them in burial,
Because you have destroyed your land,
You have slain your people.
May the descendants of evildoers never be named!
“Though his children are many, they are destined for the sword;
And his descendants will not have sufficient bread.
Their offspring You will destroy from the earth,
And their descendants from the sons of men.
