5 Bible Verses about Heredity

"Rabbi," asked his disciples, "who was it that sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

And do not think that you can say among yourselves 'Abraham is our ancestor,' for I tell you that out of these very stones God is able to raise descendants for Abraham!

All that owes its birth to human nature is human, and all that owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and through sin came death; so, also, death spread to all mankind, because all men had sinned.

It was a Cretan--one of their own teachers--who said: 'Cretans are always liars, base brutes, and gluttonous idlers'; and his statement is true.