Heredity

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

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,

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

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.

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

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

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.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

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

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

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.”

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

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh; — read the full passage →

‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

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?

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

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

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

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

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

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;

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.

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

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

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

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

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

‘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.’

“You shall not commit adultery.

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

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.

Again Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

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 will I first measure their work into their bosom.”

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

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 was called a transgressor from the womb.

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is lacking.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

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

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

Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. — read the full passage →

The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!” — read the full passage →

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

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →