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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children Exodus 20:5

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,

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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children 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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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children Leviticus 26:39, 40

Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers. / But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children Numbers 14:33

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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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children Job 5:4

His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children Job 18:19

He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children 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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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children Psalm 21:10

You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.

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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children 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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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children Psalm 109:9

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children Proverbs 14:11

The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children Isaiah 14:20–22

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. / “I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.

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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children Isaiah 65:7

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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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children 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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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children 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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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

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Sin: Consequences of, Entailed Upon Children Romans 5:12–21

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. / For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law. / Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.

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