Bible Verses About Inheritance Disputes

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

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

And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.

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.

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.

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

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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

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.

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:

But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

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

For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

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

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

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.

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father’s brethren.

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

And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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

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.

That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.

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

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.

And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?

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.

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

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.

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

For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

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

And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.

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

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

For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God promised him.