Bible Verses About Heritage Studies

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

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:

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.

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

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.

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

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

And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

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.

Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

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

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!

Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

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.

In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

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.

Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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.

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their 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;

Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

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

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

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.