16 Bible Verses about Ancestors

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

After three days Paul called together the local leaders of the Jews; and when they had gathered, he said to them, "Brethren, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

Of them are the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, forever blessed. Amen.

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

And now I am standing trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers;

As regards the gospel they are enemies of God, for your sake; but as regards election they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.

And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.

Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming! 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 from it himself, as well as his sons and his cattle?"

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews 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 they died.

This is the bread which came down from heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread will live for ever."

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