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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Genesis 5:3

When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 20:5, 6

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, / but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 34:7

maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Numbers 14:18, 33

‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’ / Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Job 14:4

Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Job 21:19

It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 37:28

For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 51:5

Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 58:3

The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 14:20, 21

You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned. / Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 48:8

You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 65:6, 7

Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps, / both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 31:29, 30

“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’ / Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 32:18

You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 18:2, 19, 20

“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’? / Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live. / The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 3:9

And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning John 3:6, 7

Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit. / Do not be amazed that I said, ‘You must be born again.’

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning John 9:2

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

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 15:22

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

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Heredity: General Scriptures Concerning Ephesians 2:3

All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

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