And if children, then heirs (namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ) – if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.

For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.

And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.”

in these last days he has spoken to us in a son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he created the world.

Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and the inheritance will be ours!’

But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir; let’s kill him so the inheritance will be ours!’

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath,

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’

By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?