8 Bible Verses about Heredity
Most Relevant Verses
And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, he, or his parents, that he was born blind?
And think not to say in yourselves we have Abraham a father; for I say to you that God can of these stones raise up children to Abraham.
And God will form great sea. monsters and every living soul creeping, which the waters bred abundantly according to their kind, and every bird of wing according to its kind: and God will see that it is good.
That born of flesh is flesh; and that born of the Spirit is spirit.
Therefore, as by one man sin came into the world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned:
The daughters of Zelophehad spake rightly: giving, thou shalt give to them the possession of an inheritance in the midst of the brethren of their father, and cause the inheritance of their father to pass over to them.
And Adam shall live thirty and one hundred years, and shall beget in his likeness, according to his image, and will call his name Seth.
A certain of them said, their own prophet, The Cretians always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies.
From Thematic Bible
Heredity » General references to
The unjust turned aside from the belly: they went astray from the womb, speaking falsehood.
Watching kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression and sin, and acquitting, will not cleanse; striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and upon the sons' sons, upon the third and the fourth.
Thou shalt not be united with them in the grave, for thou destroyedst thy land, and didst slay thy people: the seed of those doing evil shall not be called forever.
Heredity » Beneficent influence of the righteous
In the fear of Jehovah the trust of strength, and to his sons a refuge.
I was a youth, also I grew old, and I saw not the just one forsaken and his seed seeking bread.
His seed shall be great in the earth: the generation of the upright shall be praised.
Hand to hand, the evil one shall not be unpunished: and the seed of the just were delivered.
Heredity » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
For Jehovah love's judgment, and he will not forsake his godly ones; forever they were watched, and the seed of the unjust was cut off.
Thou shalt not be united with them in the grave, for thou destroyedst thy land, and didst slay thy people: the seed of those doing evil shall not be called forever.
O generation of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the month speaks.
If his sons shall be multiplied, for then the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Their fruit thou wilt destroy from the earth, and their seed from the sons of man.
