Bible Verses About Spiritual Heritage

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 gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.

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.

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

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

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

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.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

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.

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:

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.

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?

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

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.

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

Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

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

We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

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

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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