31 Bible Verses about Ancestors

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

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they have despised the Laws of Jehovah, and have not kept His commandments. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.

And he saw, he rose and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba of Judah, and left his servant there. And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he begged for his life, that he might die. And he said, It is enough. O Jehovah, take away my life. For I am no better than my fathers.

And after three days it happened that Paul called together those being chief of the Jews. And they coming together, he said to them, Men, brothers, I did nothing against the people or customs of our fathers. I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans

There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh (for he was the first-born of Joseph); 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 to Shem were born, even him, the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.

whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ according to flesh, He being God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

For he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

And say, So says the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem, Your origin and your birth is of the land of Canaan. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.

These are the three sons of Noah, and the whole earth was overspread from them.

Jehovah did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, all of us here, alive today.

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made to our fathers by God,

Do not remove the old landmark which your fathers have set.

Indeed as regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes. But as regards the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham I will remember. And I will remember the land.

Surely, none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and up, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not fully followed Me,

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

so that you may love Jehovah your God, and that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, so that you may dwell in the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it to them.

that He may establish you today for a people to Himself, and that He may be a God to you, as He has said to you, and as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

And He said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to the nations, the rebelling ones who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have sinned against Me, to this day.

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

and you fill up the measure of your fathers.

Blessed is the kingdom of our father David, who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!

to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember His holy covenant,

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his children and his cattle?

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

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

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

This is the Bread which came down from Heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna, and died; he who partakes of this Bread shall live forever.

Because of this Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers,) and you circumcise a man on the sabbath day.