Gen. 18:19 KJV – I know him (Abr), that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.


Gen. 18:19 ESV – (17) Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, ... 19 For I have chosen [Hebr. 'known']him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.

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Dt. 4:9 Only take care, and keep your [Israel] soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children – 10 how on the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, 'Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.'


Dt. 6:2 – [commandments at the crossing of the Jordan:] that you [Israel] may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.


Dt. 6:6 – These words that I command you [Israel] today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. ... [as a] sign on your hand ... frontlets between your eyes ... [on the] doorposts of your house and ... gates.


Dt. 11:18 – You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand ... eyes. 19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 20 ... doorposts ... gates, 21 that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them.


Psa 22:30,31 – Posterity shall serve him [God]; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation; 31 they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it.


Psa. 78:5-7 – He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, 6 that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments.


Psa. 102:18 – Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD.


Isa. 59:21f – “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit, who is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring,” says the LORD, “from this time forth and forevermore.”


Gen.18:19; Deut.4:9; 6:2; [Deut. 6:4-9; 11:13-21; (Nu.15:37-41)] Psa. 22:31; 78:5-7; 102:18; Isa. 59:21


2Jn 4 – It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth.

3Jn 4 – I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.


2 Timothy 1:5 – your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.

3:14 – continue in what you have learned; ... you know ... 15 how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.


Lk1:17 –(his father Zechariah about his son John the Baptist) he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous – to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

Mal.4:6 [Elijah, sent by God] will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers {or else...}

RSB note: Repentance and turning to God will be seen in the restoration of family relationships.


Acts 2:39 – The promise [forgiveness & the gift of the Holy Spirit] is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.