Bible Verses About Promise of Inheritance
Bible verses about Promise of Inheritance
Discover what the Bible says about promise of inheritance.
Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.
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For if the inheritance [is] by the law, [it is] no more by promise: but God gave [it] to Abraham by promise.
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first testament, they who are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD [is] his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.
Scripture Passages
And he gave him no inheritance in it, no not [so much as] to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when [as yet] he had no child.
Ask of me, and I will give [thee] the heathen [for] thy inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth [for] thy possession.
Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] the LORD; [and] the people [whom] he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, by which thou didst confirm thy inheritance, when it was weary.
Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old: the rod of thy inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, in which thou hast dwelt.
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thy inheritance.
Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
A good [man] leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for the just.
A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
And one of the company said to him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.
But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.
And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye are endued with power from on high.
For the promise that he should be the heir of the world [was] not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Therefore [it is] of faith, that [it might be] by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all;
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
The LORD [is] the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Save thy people, and bless thy inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellence of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
Is his mercy wholly gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for evermore?
He gave over his people also to the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
Saying, To thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
For he remembered his holy promise, [and] Abraham his servant.
House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife [is] from the LORD.
An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end of it shall not be blessed.
For if they who are of the law [are] heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of no effect.
For this [is] the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
And Rachel and Leah answered, and said to him, [Is there] yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, [and] shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy inheritance, [in] the place, O LORD, [which] thou hast made for thee to dwell in; [in] the sanctuary, O Lord. [which] thy hands have established.
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us (for it [is] a stiff-necked people) and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thy inheritance.
And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession, they shall be your bond-men for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor.
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, [even] forty days (each day for a year) shall ye bear your iniquities, [even] forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
Moreover, thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.