Bible Verses About Family Legacy

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

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.

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:

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

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

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

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

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;

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.

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,

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

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.

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.

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.

Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

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

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

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

One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

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.

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

Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

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.

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

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

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

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

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

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

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

And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

Swear now therefore unto me by the Lord, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father’s house.

And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

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.

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

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.

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.