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 nations, that I might be their God. I am LORD.

Was not Abraham our father made righteous from works, having offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?

Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have rejected the law of LORD, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, accord

And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life. And he came to Beersheba, which belongs 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 LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my

And it came to pass after three days, for Paul to call together those who were the principle men of the Jews. And when they came together, he said to them, Men, brothers, I, having done nothing against the people, or the paternal c

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

of whom are the fathers, and from whom (according to flesh) is the Christ, God who is over all is blessed into the ages. Truly.

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

and say, Thus says lord LORD to Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is from the land of the Canaanite. The Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite.

These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was spread over.

LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

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

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

They are indeed enemies toward the good-news for your sake, but toward selection, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.

then I will 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 who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,

Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.

to love LORD thy God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him, for he is thy life, and the length of thy days, that thou may dwell in the land which LORD swore to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

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

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

Then fill ye up the measure of your fathers.

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

to do mercy with our fathers, and his holy covenant to be remembered,

Are thou greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his livestock?

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship.

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just 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 that came down out of heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread will live into the age.

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