HEREDITY

Passages on this topic · 29

• Genesis 5:3

  Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

• Exodus 20:5

  you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

• Exodus 20:6

  and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

• Exodus 34:7

  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 on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

• Numbers 14:18

  ‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

• Numbers 14:33

  Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.

• Job 14:4

  Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

• Job 21:19

  You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

• Psalms 37:28

  For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

• Psalms 51:5

  Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

• Psalms 58:3

  The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

• Isaiah 14:20

  You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.

• Isaiah 14:21

  Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.

• Isaiah 48:8

  Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

• Isaiah 65:6

  “Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,

• Isaiah 65:7

  your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh, “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills. Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.”

• Jeremiah 31:29

  “In those days they shall say no more, “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

• Jeremiah 31:30

  But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

• Jeremiah 32:18

  who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is his name;

• Ezekiel 18:2

  “What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

• Ezekiel 18:19

  “Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

• Ezekiel 18:20

  The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

• Matthew 3:9

  Don’t 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.

• John 3:6

  That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

• John 3:7

  Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’

• John 9:2

  His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

• Romans 5:12

  Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

• 1 Corinthians 15:22

  For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

• Ephesians 2:3

  among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.