Deliverance
Someone told me I have a generational curse. Is that biblical?
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The question
They said the problems in my family go back three generations and that is why nothing changes.
The answer
Be careful with this, and be careful with whoever told you. Scripture does speak about the consequences of sin reaching into families — that is observably true, and anyone who has watched addiction or violence move down a family line knows it. What Scripture does not do is leave a believer under it.
The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son.
Ezekiel 18:20And for anyone in Christ, the question is settled elsewhere: you are a new creation, and there is no condemnation. A believer is not carrying a verdict handed down from a grandparent.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
2 Corinthians 5:17What is often real is a pattern rather than a curse: what a family models, tolerates, hides or repeats. Patterns are broken by ordinary, unglamorous means — repentance, honesty, forgiveness, new habits, sometimes counseling, and time. That work is slower than a single prayer and it is what actually changes a family.
Scripture in this teaching
Ezekiel 18:20 · 2 Corinthians 5:17 · Romans 8:1 · Galatians 3:13
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