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Bible Verses About Inheritance Matters

This collection includes 50 passages about Inheritance Matters. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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This collection is a starting point, not a count of every relevant passage in the Bible.

Scripture Passages

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

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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.

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

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For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

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

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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:

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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:

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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.

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

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

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Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

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

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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.

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For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

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So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

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

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Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

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Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

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

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Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

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

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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.

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

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And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.

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Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.

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Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,

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