Bible verses about "inheritance" | ABU

¹³ And a certain one of the multitude said to him: Teacher, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. ¹⁴ And he said to him: Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you? ¹⁵ And he said to them: Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; because a man's life consists not in the abundance of his possessions. ¹⁶ And he spoke a parable to them, saying: The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully. ¹⁷ And he thought within himself, saying: What shall I do, because I have not where to store my fruits? ¹⁸ And he said: This will I do; I will pull down my barns, and will build greater; and there I will store all my fruits and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ But God said to him: Fool! this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall those things be, which thou didst provide? ²¹ So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

²⁵ Now his elder son was in the field. And as he came, and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. ²⁶ And calling to him one of the servants, he inquired what these things meant. ²⁷ And he said to him: Thy brother is come; and thy father killed the fatted calf, because he received him back, safe and sound. ²⁸ And he was angry, and would not go in; and his father came out, and entreated him. ²⁹ And he answering said to his father: Lo, so many years do I serve thee, and never transgressed thy command; and to me thou never gayest a kid, that I might make merry with my friends. ³⁰ But when this thy son came, who devoured thy living with harlots, thou didst kill for him the fatted calf. ³¹ And he said to him: Child, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

¹⁷ and if children, also heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

⁷ that, having been justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

¹⁸ the eyes of your heart being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest; which are, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, emulation, wraths, contentions, divisions, factions, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings; and things like these; of which I tell you beforehand, as I also said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

³² And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, who is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

²³ Whatever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men; ²⁴ knowing that from the Lord ye will receive the recompense of the inheritance. Serve the Lord Christ.

¹¹ in him, in whom we obtained also the inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will, ¹² that we should be to the praise of his glory who before have hoped in the Christ; ¹³ in whom ye also, after having heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation, in whom [I say] having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise; ¹⁴ which is an earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of his glory.