16 Bible Verses about Ancestors

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

And after three days, Paul called the chief of the Jews together. And when they were come together, he said to them, Brethren, though I have done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, yet have I been delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans:

Whose are the fathers, and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is, over all, God, blessed for ever.

For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedek met him.

And now I stand in judgment, for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers:

With regard to the gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but as for the election, they are beloved, for the sake of their fathers.

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. Ye serpents, ye brood of vipers,

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

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

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

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain: but ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

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

This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die.

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

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