Bible Verses About Heritage Disputes

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

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.

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

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:

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

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the Lord.

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.

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord’s controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.

O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

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

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

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.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage.

Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

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:

Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever:

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.