Bible Verses About Generational Curses
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for generational curses, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 7,670 votes, led by Numbers 14:18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Generational Curses
Numbers 14:18433 votes
The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Exodus 20:5386 votes
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Ezekiel 18:20345 votes
The soul that sinneth, it 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 upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Galatians 3:13270 votes
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Deuteronomy 24:16263 votes
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
John 9:1-3225 votes
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
John 8:36213 votes
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Ezekiel 18:1-32192 votes
The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying,
Ezekiel 18:19-20190 votes
Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
2 Corinthians 5:17170 votes
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Exodus 34:6-7163 votes
And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
Exodus 34:7161 votes
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Leviticus 26:39-42157 votes
And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
Deuteronomy 5:9155 votes
Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Genesis 12:3153 votes
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Galatians 3:10150 votes
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Deuteronomy 28:1-68141 votes
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
John 8:32133 votes
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Hosea 4:6117 votes
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Jeremiah 17:5115 votes
Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
Proverbs 26:2113 votes
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
Mark 11:24111 votes
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
2 Chronicles 25:4102 votes
But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
James 4:795 votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Exodus 20:4-688 votes
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
What does the Bible say about generational curses?
Readers most often cite Numbers 14:18 on the subject of generational curses. Across 7,670 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 20:5, Ezekiel 18:20, Galatians 3:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.