16 Bible Verses about Ancestors

Was not our forefather Abraham made upright for his good deeds, for offering his son Isaac on the altar?

Three days later, he invited the leading Jews to come to see him, and when they came he said to them, "Brothers, I have done nothing against our people, or the customs of our forefathers, yet I was turned over to the Romans as a prisoner at Jerusalem.

and the patriarchs, and from them physically Christ came??od who is over all be blessed forever! Amen.

for none of Abraham's posterity was yet begotten at the time of his meeting with Melchizedek.

Even now it is for my hope in the promise that God made to our forefathers that I stand here on trial,

From the point of view of the good news they are treated as enemies of God on your account; but from the point of view of God's choice, they are dear to him because of their forefathers,

and say, 'If we had been living in the times of our fathers, we would not have joined them in the murder of the prophets.'

Go on and fill up the measure of your forefathers' guilt.

Blessed be the reign of our father David which is coming! God bless him from on high!"

Thus showing mercy to our forefathers, And keeping his sacred agreement,

Are you a greater man than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with his sons and his flocks?"

Our forefathers worshiped God on this mountain, and yet you Jews say that the place where people must worship God is at Jerusalem."

Our forefathers in the desert had manna to eat; as the Scripture says, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat!'"

Your forefathers in the desert ate the manna and yet they died.

This is the bread that has come down out of heaven??ot like that which your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever lives on this bread will live forever."

Yet Moses gave you the rite of circumcision??ot that it began with Moses but with your forefathers??nd you practice it even on the Sabbath.