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Jeremiah 16:12
You did more evil than your ancestors. Look, each one of you was following the stubbornness of his evil heart, not obeying me.
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Ezekiel 18:2
“ What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel:‘ The fathers eat sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
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Exodus 20:5
Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,
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Jeremiah 31:29
“ In those days, it will never again be said,‘ The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
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Jeremiah 14:20
We acknowledge our wickedness, LORD, the iniquity of our ancestors; indeed, we have sinned against you.
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Matthew 23:32-36
Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors’ sins!“ Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.Truly I tell you, all these things will come on this generation.
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Zechariah 1:5
Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?
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Genesis 42:13
But they replied,“ We, your servants, were twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no longer living.”
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Jeremiah 31:15
This is what the LORD says: A voice was heard in Ramah, a lament with bitter weeping— Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children because they are no more.
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Job 7:21
Why not forgive my sin and pardon my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the grave. You will eagerly seek me, but I will be gone.
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Job 7:8
The eye of anyone who looks on me will no longer see me. Your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.
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Genesis 42:36
Their father Jacob said to them,“ It’s me that you make childless. Joseph is gone, and Simeon is gone. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything happens to me!”