25 Bible Verses about Inheritance, Spiritual

but in these days at the end he has spoken to us by a Son ??a Son whom he appointed heir of the universe, as it was by him that he created the world.

Afterwards he sent them his son; 'They will respect my son,' he said. But when the vinedressers saw his son they said to themselves, 'Here is the heir; come on, let us kill him and seize his inheritance!' So they took and threw him outside the vineyard and killed him.

He had still one left, a beloved son; he sent him to them last, saying, 'They will respect my son.' But these vinedressers said to themselves, 'Here is the heir; come on, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be our own.' So they took and killed him, and threw him outside the vineyard.

Said the owner of the vineyard, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.' But when the vinedressers saw him, they argued to themselves, 'Here is the heir, let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.' And they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

Then Jesus came forward to them and said, "Full authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth;

"A nobleman," he said, "went abroad to obtain royal power for himself and then return.

the Father loves the Son and has given him control over everything.

and thus he is superior to the angels, as he has inherited a Name superior to theirs. For to what angel did God ever say, 'Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father'? Or again, 'I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me'? And further, when introducing the Firstborn into the world, he says, 'Let all God's angels worship him.'

and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ ??for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory.

namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise.

God, in his desire to afford the heirs of the Promise a special proof of the solid character of his purpose, interposed with an oath;

He mediates a new covenant for this reason, that those who have been called may obtain the eternal inheritance they have been promised, now that a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions involved in the first covenant.

If the Inheritance is due to law, it ceases to be due to promise. Now it was by a promise that God bestowed it on Abraham.

And now I entrust you to God and the word of his grace; he is able to upbuild you and give you your inheritance among all the consecrated.

thanking the Father who has qualified us to share the lot of the saints in the Light,

Now if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring; in virtue of the Promise, you are heirs.

The promise made to Abraham and his offspring that he should inherit the world, did not reach him through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if it is adherents of the Law who are heirs, then faith is empty of all meaning and the promise is void. (What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)read more.
That is why all turns upon faith; it is to make the promise a matter of favour, to make it secure for all the offspring, not simply for those who are adherents of the Law but also for those who share the faith of Abraham ??of Abraham who is the father of us all (as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations). Such a faith implies the presence of the God in whom he believed, a God who makes the dead live and calls into being what does not exist.

It was by faith that Noah, after being told by God what was still unseen, reverently constructed an ark to save his household; thus he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that follows faith. It was by faith that Abraham obeyed his call to go forth to a place which he would receive as an inheritance; he went forth, although he did not know where he was to go. It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land, as in a foreign country, residing in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob who were co-heirs with him of the same promise;read more.
he was waiting for the City with its fixed foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Are not all angels merely spirits in the divine service, commissioned for the benefit of those who are to inherit salvation?

Everyone who has left brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands or houses for my name's sake will get a hundred times as much and inherit life eternal.

Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"

that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."

In the same way you husbands must be considerate in living with your wives, since they are the weaker sex; you must honour them as heirs equally with yourselves of the grace of Life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, to ransom those who were under the Law, that we might get our sonship. It is because you are sons that God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying 'Abba! Father!'read more.
So you are servant no longer but son, and as son you are also heir, all owing to God.

You have come to mount Sion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels in festal gathering, to the assembly of the first-born registered in heaven, to the God of all as judge, to the spirits of just men made perfect,