Bible Verses About Heredity

You are not to bow down to them or serve them; for I, ADONAI your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sins of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

but displaying grace to the thousandth generation of those who love me and obey my mitzvot. d

You will not be joined with those kings in the grave, because you destroyed your own land, you have brought death to your own people. The descendants of evildoers will be utterly forgotten.

Get ready to slaughter his sons for the iniquity of their fathers; so they won't arise, take over the earth and cover the world with their cities."

See, it is written before me; I will not be silent until I repay them; I will repay them to the full,

your own crimes and those of your ancestors together," says ADONAI. "They offered incense on the mountains and insulted me on the hills. First I will measure out their wages and then repay them in full."

"When those days come they will no longer say, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

Rather, each will die for his own sin; every one who eats sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.

"You ask, 'Why doesn't the son bear his father's guilt?' When the son has done what is lawful and right, has kept all my laws and obeyed them, he will certainly live.

The person who sins is the one that will die - a son is not to bear his father's guilt with him, nor is the father to bear his son's guilt with him; but the righteousness of the righteous will be his own, and the wickedness of the wicked will be his own.

What is born from the flesh is flesh, and what is born from the Spirit is spirit.

Stop being amazed at my telling you that you must be born again from above!