8 Bible Verses about Heredity
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And his disciples questioned him, saying - Rabbi! who sinned, this man or his parents, that, blind, he should be born?
and think not to be saying within yourselves, - As our father, we have, Abraham; for, I say unto you, that God is able, out of these stones, to raise up children unto Abraham.
And God created the great sea-monsters, - and every living soul that moveth - with which the waters swarmed after their kind and every winged bird - after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
That which hath been born of the flesh, is, flesh, and, that which hath been born of the spirit, is, spirit.
For this cause, - just as, through one man, sin into the world entered, and through sin, death, - and, so, unto all men death passed through, for that all had sinned; -
A right thing, are the daughters of Zelophehad speaking: Thou shalt, surely give, them a possession for an inheritance, in the midst of the brethren of their father, - and shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass over unto them.
And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his likeness after his image, - and called his name Seth:
Said one from among them, a prophet, of their own! - Cretans! always false, mischievous wild-beasts, idle gluttons:
From Thematic Bible
Heredity » General references to
Lo! in iniquity, was I brought forth, And, in sin, did my mother conceive me.
Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood;
Keeping lovingkindness to a thousand generations, Forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, Though he leave not, utterly unpunished, Visiting the iniquity of fathers, Upon sons, And upon sons' sons, Unto a third and unto a fourth generation.
As for them who go down to the stones of the Pit, Thou shalt not be united with them in burial; For thy land, thou didst ruin Thy people, didst slay, - Unnamed to times ago-abiding, Be the seed of the wicked!
Our fathers, sinned, and are not, and, we, their iniquities, have borne.
Heredity » Beneficent influence of the righteous
In the reverence of Yahweh, is strong security, and, his children, shall have a place of refuge.
Young, have I been, moreover am old, - Yet have I not seen, A righteous man forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread:
As for a righteous man, walking in his integrity, how happy are his children after him!
Mighty in the earth, shall be his seed, The generation of the upright, shall be blessed;
Hand to hand, the wicked man shall not be held innocent, but, the seed of the righteous, hath been delivered.
Heredity » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
For, Yahweh, loveth justice, and will not forsake his men of lovingkindness, Unto times age-abiding, have the perverse been destroyed, - and the seed of the lawless, been cut off.
As for them who go down to the stones of the Pit, Thou shalt not be united with them in burial; For thy land, thou didst ruin Thy people, didst slay, - Unnamed to times ago-abiding, Be the seed of the wicked!
Broods of vipers! How can ye speak, good things, being, evil? For, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
If his children be multiplied, for them, there is the sword, and, his offspring, shall not be filled with bread;
Their fruit - out of the earth, wilt thou destroy, and their seed, from among the sons of men;
