29 Bible Verses about Ancestors

But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD."

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

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.

Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and 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 broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."

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

Then allotment was made to the people of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war.

To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born.

To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

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

and say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.

Not with our fathers did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today.

And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,

Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set.

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.

then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, 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 that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me,

See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.'

loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."

that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.

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

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

Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock."

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people 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 they died.

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever."

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