Bible Verses About Heritage

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

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:

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

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

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

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.

And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

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.

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

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

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;

Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

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

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

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

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

And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.

Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

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.