16 Bible Verses about Ancestors

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

Now it came to pass that after three days Paul called together the principal persons of the Jews. And when they were assembled, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have done nothing contrary to the people and the customs of our ancestors, yet have I been delivered up a prisoner into the hands of the Romans.

of whom are the fathers, and from whom as respecting the flesh Christ sprung, who is over all, the blessed God for evermore. Amen.

For he was as yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedec met him.

And this moment for the hope of the promise made of God to our fathers am I standing here to be judged:

As concerning the gospel indeed, they are now enemies for your sakes: as concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.

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.

Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that is coming in the name of the Lord: hosanna in the highest.

to perform mercy towards our fathers, and to remember his own holy covenant:

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

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye affirm, That the place where we ought to worship is at Jerusalem.

Our fathers did eat manna in the wilderness; as it is written, "He gave them bread from heaven to eat."

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and they are dead.

This is the bread which came down from heaven, not as the manna your fathers did eat, and died: he that eateth this bread shall live to eternity.

Because Moses ordered you circumcision; (not that it comes from Moses, but from our ancestors;) so ye circumcise a man on the sabbath-day.