31 Bible Verses about Ancestors

but I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?

Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers did walk:

And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper-tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O Jehovah, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

And it came to pass, that after three days he called together those that were the chief of the Jews: and when they were come together, he said unto them, I, brethren, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, yet was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans:

And this was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the first-born of Joseph. As for Machir the first-born of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.

whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

for he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him.

and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite.

These three were the sons of Noah: and of these was the whole earth overspread.

Jehovah made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

And now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;

Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set.

As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers'sake.

then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:

Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

to love Jehovah thy God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him; for he is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

that he may establish thee this day unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he spake unto thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me even unto this very day.

and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Blessed is the kingdom that cometh, the kingdom of our father David: Hosanna in the highest.

To show mercy towards, our fathers, And to remember his holy covenant;

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread shall live for ever.

Moses hath given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man.