36 Bible Verses about Inheritance

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Psalm 16:6

The cords fell to me in sweetnesses; also the inheritance was bountiful upon me.

Psalm 16:5

Jehovah the portion of my part and of my cup: thou didst hold up my lot.

Isaiah 61:7

For your shame the second place; and they shall rejoice in reproach, their portion: for this in their land they shall inherit the second place; eternal joy shall be to them.

Psalm 2:8

Ask of me and I will give the nations thine inheritance, and thy possession the extremities of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:9

For Jehovah the portion of his people; Jacob the cord of his inheritance.

Jeremiah 17:4

And thou wert thrust in thyself from thine inheritance which I gave to thee; and I caused thee to serve thine enemies in a land which thou knewest not: for ye kindled a fire in mine anger; it shall burn forever.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance greedily gotten in the beginning; and its latter state shall not be

1 Corinthians 6:10

Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Psalm 37:9

For they doing evil shall be cut off: and they waiting for Jehovah they shall inherit the earth.

Luke 12:13

And a certain one out of the crowd said to him, Teacher, speak to my brother to divide the inheritance with me.

Isaiah 49:8

Thus said Jehovah, In a time of acceptance I answered thee, and in the day of salvation I helped thee: and I will guard thee, and I will give thee for a covenant of the people to cause the earth to stand, to cause to inherit the inheritance of desolations,

Job 42:15

And women were not found fair as the daughters of Job, in all the land: and their father will give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren.

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Isaiah 19:25

Whom Jehovah of armies blest him, saying, Blessed my people of Egypt, and the work of my hand, Assur, and my inheritance Israel.

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Luke 15:12

And the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of property falling. And he divided to them the property.

Numbers 36:2

And they will say, Jehovah commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel: and my lord was commanded by Jehovah to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

Joshua 16:4

And the sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, will inherit.

Joshua 17:4

And they will come near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua son of Nun, and before the chiefs, saying, Jehovah commanded Moses to give to us an inheritance in the midst of our brethren. And he will give to them according to the mouth of Jehovah an inheritance in the midst of the brethren of their father.

Joshua 19:1

And the second lot came forth to Simeon, to the tribe of the sons of Simeon, according to their families: and their inheritance will be in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Judah.

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Deuteronomy 1:38

Joshua son of Nun, standing before thee, he shall come in there: strengthen him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it

Leviticus 20:24

And I said to you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to inherit it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I Jehovah your God, who separated you from the nations.

Joshua 1:6

Be strong and be active; for thou shalt cause Israel to inherit the land which I sware to their fathers to give to them.

Joshua 12:6

Moses the servant of Jehovah, and the sons of Israel, smote them: and Moses the servant of Jehovah will give it a possession to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh.

Joshua 13:6

All inhabiting the mountains from Lebanon to Misrephoth-Maim, all the Sidonians, I will drive them out from before the sons of Israel: only separate it to Israel in inheritance as I commanded thee.

More verses: Joshua 14:2 Joshua 24:28

Inheritance » Who is an heir of God through Christ

Galatians 3:27-29

For as many of you as were immersed into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither servant nor free, there is neither male and female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye of Christ, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Romans 8:16-17

The Spirit itself testifies with our spirit, that we are children of God: And if children, also heirs; truly heirs of God, and coheirs of Christ; if indeed we suffer together, that we may be also glorified together.

Galatians 4:3-7

So also we, when we were children, were subjugated under the world's elements: And when the completion of the time was come, God sent his Son, born of woman, born under the law, That he might redeem them under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. read more.
And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. So that thou art no more a servant, but a son: and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

Ephesians 1:10-11

For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him: In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will:

Inheritance » Earthly » Laws of

Numbers 33:54

And divide ye the land by lot to your tribes: to the many ye shall multiply his inheritance, and to the few ye shall diminish his inheritance; to whom shall come forth to him, there shall the lot be to him; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit

Deuteronomy 21:16

And it was in the day of his causing his sons to inherit what shall be to him, he shall, not be able to make the son of the loved first-born before the son of the hated, the first-born:

Numbers 27:8

And to the sons of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, A man when he shall die, and no son to him, and cause ye his inheritance to pass to his daughter.

Numbers 36:7

And the inheritance of the sons of Israel shall not remove from tribe to tribe; for the sons of Israel shall cleave each to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

Ezekiel 46:16

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: If the prince shall give a gift to a man of his sons, of his inheritance, it shall be to his sons; this their possession by inheritance.

Inheritance » Who shall not inherit the kingdom of God

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And these were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were consecrated, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Galatians 5:16-21

And I say, Walk in Spirit, and complete not the desire of the flesh. For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are adverse to one another: that not the things ye would, these should ye do. And if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law. read more.
And the works of the flesh are manifest, which are; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, Idolatry, charm, enmities, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intriguings, seditions, sects Envyings, slaughters, drunkenness, revelries, and the like: to these which I foretell you, as I have also said before, that they doing such shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Matthew 25:31-46

And when the Son of man should come in his glory, and all his holy messengers with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the kids: . And he shall set the sheep from his right, and the kids from his left. read more.
Then shall the king say to them from his right, Come, the praised of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and ye brought me in: Naked, and ye put around me: I was sick, and ye reviewed me: I was in prison, and ye came to me. Then shall the just answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, and nourished or thirsting, and gave to drink And when saw we thee a stranger, and brought in or naked, and put around And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came to thee? And the king having answered, will say to them, Trull I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did to one of the least of my brethren, ye did to me. Then shall he say to them from the left, Go away from me, the cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his messengers: For I was hungry, and ye gave me not to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger and ye brought me not in; naked, and ye put not around me; sick, and in prison, and ye took not a view of me. Then shall they answer him, they also saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and attended not to thee? Then shall he answer them saying, Inasmuch as ye did not to one of the least of these, ye did not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: and the just into eternal life.

Ephesians 5:5-7

For this ye are knowing, that every fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let none lead you astray with vain words: for by these things comes the anger of God upon the sons of disobedience. Be ye not therefore partakers with them.

Inheritance » Figurative

Romans 8:16-17

The Spirit itself testifies with our spirit, that we are children of God: And if children, also heirs; truly heirs of God, and coheirs of Christ; if indeed we suffer together, that we may be also glorified together.

Inheritance » Who shall inherit the earth

Psalm 37:9

For they doing evil shall be cut off: and they waiting for Jehovah they shall inherit the earth.

Isaiah 57:13-15

In thy crying out, shall thy gatherings deliver thee? and the wind shall lift them all up; a breath shall take: and he taking refuge in me shall inherit the land, and he shall inherit my holy mountain; And he shall say, Lift ye up, lift ye up; clear the way, take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people. For thus said the high and lifted up inhabiting eternity, and his name Holy; being lifted up, and I will dwell in the holy place, and with the broken and humble of spirit, to preserve alive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the broken.

Inheritance » Provisions for inheritance under levirate marriages

Deuteronomy 25:5-10

If brethren shall dwell together and one of them died, and a son not to him, the wife of the dead shall not be without to a man a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and he took her to him for a wife, and he acted the husband's brother to her. And it is the first-born which she shall bear shall rise up upon the name of his brother the dead, and his name shall not be wiped from Israel And if the man shall not desire to take his brother's wife, and his brother's wife went up to the gate to the old men, and said, My husband's brother refused to raise up to his brother a name in Israel, and he would not act my husband's brother. read more.
And the old men of his city called to him and spake to him: and he stood and said, I desired not to take her. And his brother's wife drew near to him before the eyes of the old men, and drew off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and answered and said, Thus shall it be done to the man who will not build up the house of his brother. And his name was called in Israel, The house of him having his shoe drawn off.

Genesis 38:7-11

And Er, Judah's first-born, will be evil in the eyes of Jehovah: and Jehovah will kill him. And Judah will say to Onan, go in to thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. And Onan will know that not to him will be the seed; and it was when he went in to his brother's wife, he destroyed upon the earth, not to give seed to his brother. read more.
And it will be evil in the eyes of Jehovah, what he did, and he will kill him also And Judah will say to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Sit a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son shall be great; (for he said, Lest this also shall die as his brethren.) And Tamar will go and will sit in her father's house.

Numbers 36:6-9

This the word which Jehovah commanded to the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, To the good in their eyes they shall be for wives; only to the families of the tribe of their fathers shall they be for wives. And the inheritance of the sons of Israel shall not remove from tribe to tribe; for the sons of Israel shall cleave each to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. And every daughter possessing an inheritance from the tribe of the sons of Israel, to one of the families of the tribe of her father shall she be for wife, so that the sons of Israel shall possess each the inheritance of his fathers. read more.
And the inheritance shall not remove from a tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall cleave each to his inheritance.

Ruth 3:1-8

And Naomi her mother-in-law will say to her My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it shall be well to thee? And now is not Boaz from our acquaintance of whom thou wert with his maidens? Behold him winnowing the threshing-floor of barley this night And wash thou and anoint thyself, and put thy garments upon thee, and go down to the threshing-floor: thou shalt not make thyself known to the man till his finishing to eat and to drink. read more.
And it will be in his lying down, and know thou the place where he shall lie down there, and go in and uncover from his feet, and lie down; and he will announce to thee what thou shalt do. And she will say to her, All that thou shalt say to me, I will do. And she will go down to the threshing-floor' and she will do according to all that her mother-in-law commanded her. And Boaz will eat and drink, and his heart will be done good to; and he will go to lie down upon the end of the heap: and she will come secretly and she will uncover from his feet, and lie down. And it will be in the middle of the night, and the man will be terrified: and he will turn and behold a woman lying from his feet

Ruth 4:7-17

And this before in Israel upon redemption and upon exchange, to set up all the word; a man drew off his shoe and gave to his neighbor: and this the precept in Israel. And the blood relative will say to Boaz, Buy for thee. And he will draw off his shoe. And Boaz will say to the old men and all the people, Ye are witnesses this day that I bought all which was to Elimelech, and all which was to Chilion and Mahlon, from the hand of Naomi. read more.
And also Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I bought to me for a wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance; and the name of the dead shall not be cut off from his brethren and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day. And all the people which are in the gate will say, and the old men, Witnesses. Jehovah will give the woman coming into thy house as Rachel and as Leah, which they two built up the house of Israel: and make thou power in Ephratah, and call a name in the house of bread. And thy house shall be as the house of Pharez which Tamar bare to Judah, from the seed which Jehovah shall give to thee from this maiden. And Boaz will take Ruth, and she will be to him for a wife: and he will come in to her, and Jehovah will give to her conception, and she will bring forth a son. And the women will say to Naomi, Blessed be Jehovah who caused not to cease to thee a blood relation this day; and his name shall be called in Israel. And being to thee for the turning back the soul, and to nourish thy gray hairs: for thy daughter-in-law who loved thee brought him forth; for she is good to thee above seven sons. And Naomi will take the child and put him in her bosom, and she will be to him for nurse. And the neighbors will call to him a name, saying, A son was born to Naomi; and they will call his name Obed: he the father of Jesse, the father of David.

Inheritance » Who shall inherit eternal life

Luke 10:25-28

And, behold, a certain skilled in the law stood up, tempting him, and saying, Teacher, what having done shall I inherit eternal life And he said to him, What has been written in the law? how readest thou ? And he having answered, said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole strength; and thy neighbor as thyself. read more.
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Matthew 25:31-46

And when the Son of man should come in his glory, and all his holy messengers with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the kids: . And he shall set the sheep from his right, and the kids from his left. read more.
Then shall the king say to them from his right, Come, the praised of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and ye brought me in: Naked, and ye put around me: I was sick, and ye reviewed me: I was in prison, and ye came to me. Then shall the just answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, and nourished or thirsting, and gave to drink And when saw we thee a stranger, and brought in or naked, and put around And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came to thee? And the king having answered, will say to them, Trull I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did to one of the least of my brethren, ye did to me. Then shall he say to them from the left, Go away from me, the cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his messengers: For I was hungry, and ye gave me not to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger and ye brought me not in; naked, and ye put not around me; sick, and in prison, and ye took not a view of me. Then shall they answer him, they also saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and attended not to thee? Then shall he answer them saying, Inasmuch as ye did not to one of the least of these, ye did not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: and the just into eternal life.

Matthew 19:16-21

And, behold, one having come said to him, Good teacher, what good shall I do, that I might have eternal life? And he said to him, Why sayest thou me good? None is good except one, God; but if thou wouldst come into life, keep the commands. He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, thus: Thou shalt not murder; Thou shalt not commit adultery; Thou shalt not steal; Thou shalt not bear false witness; read more.
Honour thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. The young man says to him, All these have I watched from my youth; what yet do I want? Jesus said to him, If thou wished to be perfected, retire, sell thy possessions, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Inheritance » The inheritance of the upright

Psalm 37:18

Jehovah will know the days of the blameless, and their inheritance shall be forever.

1 Peter 1:3-5

Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, by the rising up of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, kept in the heavens for us, Who by the power of God watching ourselves by faith to salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Inheritance » Who shall inherit glory

1 Samuel 2:8

Raising up the weak from the dust, he will raise up the needy from the dung-hill to sit with the noble, and he will cause them to inherit a throne of glory, for to Jehovah the castings of the earth, and he will put the habitable globe upon them.

Inheritance » What cannot inherit the kingdom of God

1 Corinthians 15:50

And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

Inheritance » Who shall inherit the kingdom of God

Matthew 25:31-46

And when the Son of man should come in his glory, and all his holy messengers with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the kids: . And he shall set the sheep from his right, and the kids from his left. read more.
Then shall the king say to them from his right, Come, the praised of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and ye brought me in: Naked, and ye put around me: I was sick, and ye reviewed me: I was in prison, and ye came to me. Then shall the just answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, and nourished or thirsting, and gave to drink And when saw we thee a stranger, and brought in or naked, and put around And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came to thee? And the king having answered, will say to them, Trull I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did to one of the least of my brethren, ye did to me. Then shall he say to them from the left, Go away from me, the cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his messengers: For I was hungry, and ye gave me not to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger and ye brought me not in; naked, and ye put not around me; sick, and in prison, and ye took not a view of me. Then shall they answer him, they also saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and attended not to thee? Then shall he answer them saying, Inasmuch as ye did not to one of the least of these, ye did not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: and the just into eternal life.

Inheritance » Who inherits substance

Proverbs 8:12-21

I wisdom dwelt with prudence, and I shall find the knowledge of machinations. The fear of Jehovah hates evil: pride and haughtiness, and the evil way, and the mouth of perverseness I hated. To me counsel and wisdom: I am understanding; to me is strength. read more.
By me kings shall reign, and princes shall decree justice. By me chiefs shall have dominion, and nobles all judging the earth. I loved those loving me: and they seeking me shall find me. Riches and honor are with me; splendid riches and justice. My fruit is good above gold, and above pure gold; and my gain above tried silver. I shall go in the way of justice, in the midst of the beaten paths of judgment: To cause those loving me to inherit existence: and I will fill their treasures.

Inheritance » Who shall inherit all things

Inheritance » Who shall inherit the wind

Inheritance » Who inherits folly

Proverbs 14:18

The simple inherit folly: and the prudent shall be surrounded with knowledge.

Inheritance » The inheritance of the lord

Psalm 94:14

For Jehovah will not cast off his people, and he will not forsake his inheritance.

Inheritance » What is able to give you an inheritance

Legislation » Inheritance

Numbers 27:1-11

And there will come near the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, for the families of Manesseh, son of Joseph: and these the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. And they will stand before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the chiefs, and all the assembly at the door of the tent of appointment, saying, Our father died in the desert, and he was not in the midst of the assembly of them being gathered together against Jehovah, in the assembly of Korah; for he died in his sin, and there were no sons to him. read more.
Wherefore shall the name of our father be taken away from the midst of his family because there is not to him a son? Thou shalt give to us a possession in the midst of the brethren of our father. And Moses will bring near their judgment before Jehovah. And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying. The daughters of Zelophehad spake rightly: giving, thou shalt give to them the possession of an inheritance in the midst of the brethren of their father, and cause the inheritance of their father to pass over to them. And to the sons of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, A man when he shall die, and no son to him, and cause ye his inheritance to pass to his daughter. And if no daughter to him, give his inheritance to his brethren. And if no brethren to him, give ye his inheritance to the brethren of his father. And if no brethren to his father, give his inheritance to his remainder being near to him from his family; and he shall possess it, and it shall be to the sons of Israel for a law of judgment, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

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Isaiah 19:25

Whom Jehovah of armies blest him, saying, Blessed my people of Egypt, and the work of my hand, Assur, and my inheritance Israel.

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Genesis 15:3-4

And Abram will say, Behold, to me thou gavest no seed, and behold the son of my house shall inherit me.

No Earthly Inheritance

Acts 7:5

And he gave him none inheritance in it, not a step of the foot: and he promised to give it him for a possession, and to his seed after him, there being no child to him.

Priestly Inheritance

Deuteronomy 18:1

There shall not be to the priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, part and inheritance with Israel: the sacrifices of Jehovah and his inheritance they shall eat

Receiving An Inheritance

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance greedily gotten in the beginning; and its latter state shall not be

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