Bible Verses About Family Heritage

And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

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

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

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

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

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

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

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

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.

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;

And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.

Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

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,

Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.

For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.

Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

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.

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,