8 Bible Verses about Heredity
Most Relevant Verses
And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.
Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
The daughters of Zelophehad speak what is right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.
And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
From Thematic Bible
Heredity » General references to
The wicked are estranged from their birth: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, to the third and to the fourth generation.
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Heredity » Beneficent influence of the righteous
In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
Heredity » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
