'Inheritance' in the Bible

"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: If the prince should give a gift to one of his sons as his inheritance, it will belong to his sons, it is their property by inheritance.

But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will be his until the year of liberty; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance will only remain with his sons.

The prince will not take away any of the people's inheritance by oppressively removing them from their property. He will give his sons an inheritance from his own possessions so that my people will not be scattered, each from his own property.'"

You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers; this land will be assigned as your inheritance.

You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

In whatever tribe the foreigner resides, there you will give him his inheritance," declares the sovereign Lord.

Let the priests, those who serve the Lord, weep from the vestibule all the way back to the altar. Let them say, "Have pity, O Lord, on your people; please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked, to become a proverb among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, "Where is their God?"

Then I will gather all the nations, and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. I will enter into judgment against them there concerning my people Israel who are my inheritance, whom they scattered among the nations. They partitioned my land,

You wrongly evict widows among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children of their prized inheritance.

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him and get his inheritance!'

But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him and the inheritance will be ours!'

Then someone from the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."

But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, 'This is the heir; let's kill him so the inheritance will be ours!'

He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child.

After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.

And now I entrust you to God and to the message of his grace. This message is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise, but God graciously gave it to Abraham through the promise.

But what does the scripture say? "Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son" of the free woman.

who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.

-- since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened -- so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the saints' inheritance in the light.

because you know that you will receive your inheritance from the Lord as the reward. Serve the Lord Christ.

And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.

that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,