16 Bible Verses about Ancestors

Was not Abraham our father accepted as righteous through works, when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

And it came to pass that after three days he called together the chief men of the Jews, and when they had met he said to them, Brethren, I, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, was delivered up a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans;

whose are the fathers, and from whom, as to the flesh, was the Christ. He who is over all, God, be blessed for ever! Amen.

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

And now I stand on trial for the hope of the promise made by God to the fathers,

In regard to the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes; but in regard to Gods choice, they are beloved for the fathers sake.

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.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers!

Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest heavens!

to accomplish his mercy toward 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 on 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 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 the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread will live for ever.

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