31 Bible Verses about Ancestors

And I remembered for them the covenant of their beginnings, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt, in the eyes of the nations to be to them for God: I Jehovah.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn it back from him, for their rejecting the instructions of Jehovah, and they watched not his laws, and their lies caused them to err which their fathers went after them.

And he will see and arise, and go for his soul, and he will come to the Well of the Oath which was to Judah, and he will leave his boy there. And he went into the desert the way of a day, and he will come and sit under one broom-tree: and he will ask for his soul to die: and he will say, Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul, for I am not good above my fathers.

And it was after three days Paul called together them being first of the Jews: and they having come together, he said to them, Men, brethren, I having done nothing against the people, or customs of the fathers, I was delivered in bonds from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

And there will be a bound to the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the first-born of Joseph: to Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead; for he was a man of war, and there will be to him Gilead and Bashan.

And to Shem shall be born, even to him the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the great

Whose the fathers, and from whom Christ according to the flesh, who being God over all, praised forever. Amen.

For yet was he in his father's loins, when Melchisedec met him.

And say, Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity from the land of the Canaanite; thy father the Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.

These the three sons of Noah; and from these was the whole earth disseminated.

Jehovah cut not out this covenant with our fathers, but with us, we, these here this day, all we living.

And now in the hope of the solemn promise having been made to the fathers by God, I stand, being judged,

Thou shalt not remove the old bound which thy fathers made.

Truly concerning the good news, enemies for you: and concerning the selection, beloved for the fathers.

And I remembered my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaak, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

If the men coming up out of Egypt, from the son of twenty years and above, shall see the land which I sware to Abraham, to Isaak and to Jacob; for they filled not up after me:

See, I gave the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware to your fathers, to Abraham to Isaak and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.

To love Jehovah thy God; to hear to his voice and to cleave to him (for this thy life and the length of thy days) to dwell upon the land which Jehovah aware to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaak, and to Jacob, to give to them.

In order to set thee this day to him for a people, and he shall be to thee for God as he spake to thee, and as he sware to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaak, and to Jacob.

And he will say to me, Son of man, I send thee to the sons of Israel, to rebellious nations who rebelled against me: they and their fathers transgressed against me even to this same day.

And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we had not been their partakers in the blood of the prophets,

And fill ye up yourselves the measure of your fathers.

Praised the kingdom coming in the name of the Lord of our father David : Osanna in the highest ones.

To do mercy with our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant:

Thou art not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and he himself drank of it, and his sons, and his young animals.

Our fathers worshipped in this mount; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where they must worship.

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

Your fathers ate manna in the desert, and died.

This is the bread which having come down from heaven: not as your fathers ate manna, and died: he chewing this bread shall live forever.

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