Bible verses about "inheritance" | Murdock

¹³ And one of the assembly said to him: Teacher, tell my brother, to divide the inheritance with me. ¹⁴ But Jesus said to him: Man, who established me a judge and distributor over you? ¹⁵ And he said to his disciples: Beware of all avarice, for life consisteth not in abundance of riches. ¹⁶ And he spoke to them a similitude: The land of a certain rich man brought forth produce in abundance. ¹⁷ And he considered with himself, and said: What shall I do; for I have not where I can store up my produce? ¹⁸ And he said This will I do; I will pull down my storehouses, and build them larger; and there will I store up all my corn and my good things: ¹⁹ and I will say to my soul: My soul, thou hast good things in abundance, which are stored up for many years; take thy ease; eat, drink, and live in pleasure. ²⁰ But God said to him: Thou void of reason! This night, thy soul will be required of thee; and to whom will belong these things provided by thee? ²¹ Such is he that layeth up treasures for himself, and is not rich in God.

²⁵ But his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard the sound of the singing of many. ²⁶ And he called to one of the boys, and asked him what it meant. ²⁷ And he said to him: Thy brother hath come; and thy father hath killed the fatted bullock, because he hath received him in health. ²⁸ And he was angry, and would not go in: and his father went out and entreated him. ²⁹ And he said to his father: Lo, these many years have I labored in thy service, and never transgressed thy command; and thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends. ³⁰ But for this thy son, when he had dissipated thy property with harlots, and came home, thou hast slain the fatted bullock for him. ³¹ His father said to him: My son, thou hast been ever with me, and all that I have, is thine.

¹⁷ And if sons, then heirs; heirs of God, and participators of the inheritance of Jesus Messiah: so that, if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him.

⁷ that we might be justified by his grace, and become heirs in the hope of eternal life.

¹⁸ and that the eyes of your hearts may be enlightened, so 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 For the works of the flesh are known, which are whoredom, impurity, lasciviousness, ²⁰ idol-worship, magic, malice, contention, rivalry, wrath, strife, divisions, discords, ²¹ envy, murder, drunkenness, revelling, and all the like things. And they who perpetrate these things, as I have before told you, and also now tell you, do not inherit the kingdom of God.

³² And now 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 the saints.

²³ And whatever ye do, do it with your whole soul, as unto our Lord, and not as to men: ²⁴ and know ye, that from our Lord ye will receive a recompense as the inheritance; for ye serve the Lord the Messiah.

¹¹ And in him we are elected, according as he predestined us and willed, who worketh all things according to the counsel of his pleasure; ¹² that we should be they who first hoped in the Messiah, to the honor of his glory. ¹³ In whom, ye also have heard the word of truth, which is the gospel of your life, and have believed in him; and have been sealed with the Holy Spirit, who was promised, ¹⁴ who is the earnest of our inheritance, until the redemption of them that are alive, and for the praise of his glory.