Bible verses about "inheritance" | WPNT

¹³ Then someone from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me”. ¹⁴ But He said to him, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter over you?” ¹⁵ Then He said to all, “Keep alert and guard against covetousness, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” ¹⁶ Then He told them a parable, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man produced well. ¹⁷ And he reasoned within himself saying, ‘What shall I do, because I have no place to store my crops?’ ¹⁸ Then he said: ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my produce and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and enjoy yourself!’ ²⁰ But God said to him: ‘Stupid! This very night your life is being taken back from you; then who will get the things you have prepared?’ ²¹ Just like that is he who accumulates treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

²⁵ “Now his older son was in the field; and as he came approaching the house he heard music and dancing. ²⁶ So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. ²⁷ He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him back safe and sound’. ²⁸ So he became angry and refused to go in. Then his father came out and began to plead with him. ²⁹ But in answer he said to the father: ‘Just look at how many years I have been serving you without ever transgressing your commandment; yet you never gave me even a young goat that I might celebrate with my friends. ³⁰ But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’ ³¹ So he said to him: ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours.

¹⁷ —if children, also heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ (if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him).

⁷ so that having been justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

¹⁸ the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know \up6 1)\up0 what is the hope of His\up6 [F]\up0 calling, and \up6 2)\up0 what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are obvious, namely: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, fits of anger, selfish ambition, dissentions, factions, ²¹ envyings, murders, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like; about which I am warning you beforehand, as, in fact, I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

³² “And so now, brothers, I entrust 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 those who have been sanctified.

²³ And whatever you do, give it all you’ve got, as to the Lord and not to men, ²⁴ knowing that it is from the Lord that you will receive the inheritance as a reward; because you serve the Lord Christ.

¹¹ in whom we were also assigned an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him\up6 [F]\up0 who works all things according to the decision of His will, ¹² so that we should be to the praise of His glory, we who first trusted in the Christ; ¹³ about whom, to be sure, we had heard the true Word —the Gospel of your salvation; by whom, since you also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, ¹⁴ who is the down payment on our inheritance until the release of the possession, to the praise of His glory.