8 Bible Verses about Heredity
Most Relevant Verses
His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
and do not think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
"The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: you shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers; and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.
Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons."
From Thematic Bible
Heredity » General references to
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth [generation]."
You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.
Heredity » Beneficent influence of the righteous
In the fear of the LORD is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
His seed will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.
Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the seed of the righteous will be delivered.
Heredity » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
For the LORD loves justice, and doesn't forsake his holy ones. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.
