Bible Verses About Legacy
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for legacy, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,761 votes, led by Psalms 78:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Legacy
Psalms 78:4197 votes
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
Psalms 145:4130 votes
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
Deuteronomy 6:5-7129 votes
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
2 Timothy 2:294 votes
And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
2 Timothy 4:6-893 votes
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
Matthew 6:20-2189 votes
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Psalms 112:1-386 votes
Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
2 Timothy 4:1-2275 votes
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Proverbs 13:2272 votes
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Psalms 103:1769 votes
But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
Joshua 4:21-2258 votes
And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
2 Peter 1:12-1558 votes
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
John 17:20-2556 votes
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
Proverbs 22:644 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Exodus 20:5-638 votes
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Ruth 4:1138 votes
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The Lord make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Beth–lehem:
Proverbs 17:633 votes
Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
3 John 1:433 votes
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
Proverbs 20:732 votes
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
Deuteronomy 6:6-929 votes
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
Joshua 24:14-1528 votes
Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord.
Deuteronomy 12:2827 votes
Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.
2 Timothy 1:725 votes
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Philippians 3:1423 votes
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:922 votes
Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
What does the Bible say about legacy?
Readers most often cite Psalms 78:4 on the subject of legacy. Across 1,761 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 145:4, Deuteronomy 6:5-7, 2 Timothy 2:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.