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Bible Verses About Inheritance

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

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

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

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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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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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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.

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

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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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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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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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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.

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

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Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your 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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And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;

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

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But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them.

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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:

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But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.

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Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.

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And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.

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Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

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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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Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;

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