Bible Verses About Inheritance Discussions

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

But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.

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

And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

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

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

To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.

But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.

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.

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

Thus saith the Lord God; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons’; it shall be their possession by inheritance.

But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.

And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.

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

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

Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.

A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

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

Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:

And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.

But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;

Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

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;

And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.

And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.