Bible verses about "inheritance" | Anderson

¹³ And a certain one of the multitude said to him: Teacher, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. ¹⁴ But 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 covetousness; for a man's life depends not on the abundance of his possessions. ¹⁶ And he spoke a parable to them, saying: The farm of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully. ¹⁷ And he reasoned within himself, saying: What shall I do? for I have no place in which I can store my fruits. ¹⁸ And he said: This will I do: I will pull down my barns and I will build larger ones; and there I will store ail my produce, and my good things; ¹⁹ and I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ But God said to him: Senseless man, this night shall your soul be required of you; and who shall have the things which you have provided? ²¹ So is he that lays up treasure for him self, and is not rich toward God.

²⁵ But his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. ²⁶ And he called to him one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. ²⁷ And he said to him, Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him in health. ²⁸ And he was angry, and would not go in. Then his father went out and entreated him. ²⁹ But he answered and said to his father, Behold, for so many years do I serve you, and never have I transgressed your commandment, and yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends. ³⁰ But as soon as this your son has come, Who has eaten up your estate with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf. ³¹ And he said to him, Son, you are ever with me, and all that I have is yours.

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

⁷ that, being justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

¹⁸ that, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the glorious riches of his inheritance in the saints,

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are well known, and they are these lewdness, uncleanness, wantonness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strifes, jealousies, anger, party-spirit, divisions, sects, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; with respect to which, I tell you now, as I also told you in times past, that those who practice such things shall riot inherit the kingdom of God.

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

²³ And whatever you do, do from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to men; ²⁴ knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance: for you serve the Lord Christ.

¹¹ in him in whom we have obtained our portion, having been predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, ¹² that we should be for the praise of his glory; even we, who before had hope in the Christ: ¹³ in whom you also hoped after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom, after you also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, ¹⁴ which is the earnest of our inheritance, given for the redemption of his possession to the praise of his glory.