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 do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father. For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
And God created great sea-animals, and every living soul that creeps with which the waters swarmed after their kind; and every winged fowl after its 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.
Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as 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.
And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and fathered a son in his own likeness, after his own image. And he called his name Seth.
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.
From Thematic Bible
Heredity » General references to
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from the womb, speaking lies.
keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the sons, and on the sons of sons, to the third and to the fourth generation.
You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you ruined your land and killed your people; the seed of evildoers shall never be famous.
Our fathers have sinned and are not; we have borne their iniquities.
Heredity » Beneficent influence of the righteous
In the fear of Jehovah is strong hope, and His sons shall have a place of refuge.
I have been young, and am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging bread.
His seed shall be mighty on earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be innocent; but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
Heredity » Evil influence of the wicked upon posterity
For Jehovah loves judgment and does not forsake His saints; they are kept forever; but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you ruined your land and killed your people; the seed of evildoers shall never be famous.
Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
If his sons are multiplied, the sword is for them; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Their fruit shall You destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the sons of men.
