Bible Verses About Concern for Legacy

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the Lord before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the Lord.

Now therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name.

For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.

Therefore now, Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;

For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.