Inherit word study

What does the Bible teach concerning the thought of inherit/inheritance

Webster’s definition of inherit To possess; to enjoy; to take as a possession, by gift or divine appropriation; as, to inherit everlasting life; to inherit the promises.

Read all these verses in context.

Inheriting eternal life is conditional, see these verses for an example.

(Mat 25:34 KJV)  Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

(Mar 10:17 KJV)  And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

(Luk 10:25 KJV)  And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

(Act 26:18 KJV)  To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

(Rev 21:7 KJV)  He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

Every one of those verses in context shows that inheriting eternal life is conditional.

Now let’s see what else the Bible teaches concerning the word inherit/inheritance.

(Mat 5:5 KJV)  Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

(Mat 19:29 KJV)  And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

(Mat 21:38 KJV)  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.

(Mar 12:7 KJV)  But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.

(Luk 12:13 KJV)  And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.

(Luk 18:18 KJV)  And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

(Luk 20:14 KJV)  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.

(Act 7:5 KJV)  And he gave him none 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 seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

(Act 20:32 KJV)  And now, brethren, 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 them which are sanctified.

(1Co 6:9 KJV)  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

(1Co 6:10 KJV)  Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

(1Co 15:50 KJV)  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

(Gal 3:18 KJV)  For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

(Gal 5:21 KJV)  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

(Eph 1:11 KJV)  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

(Eph 1:14 KJV)  Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

(Eph 1:18 KJV)  The eyes of your understanding 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,

(Eph 5:5 KJV)  For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

(Col 1:12 KJV)  Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

(Col 3:24 KJV)  Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

(Heb 1:4 KJV)  Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

(Heb 6:12 KJV)  That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

(Heb 9:15 KJV)  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 which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

(Heb 11:8 KJV)  By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

(Heb 12:17 KJV)  For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

(1Pe 1:4 KJV)  To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

(1Pe 3:9 KJV)  Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.