16 Bible Verses about Ancestors

was not our father Abraham treated as just, in consequence of his actions, when he had attempted to sacrifice his son upon the altar?

three days after, Paul sent for the chief of the Jews: and when they were assembled, he said to them, "my brethren, tho' I have done nothing against the Jews, or against the customs of our fathers, I was made a prisoner at Jerusalem, and put into the hands of the Romans:

who are the offspring of the patriarchs, and of whom as to the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

for he was even then in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.

and now I stand arraign'd for expecting the accomplishment of the divine promise made to our fathers,

Though they are violently prejudiced against the gospel upon your account: yet they are objects of favour upon the account of their having been chosen out of respect to your fore-fathers.

and say, if we had liv'd in the time of our forefathers, we would not have been accessory with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.

children that can't fail to fill up the measure of your fathers iniquities.

blessed be the kingdom of our father David, which is now come, Hosanna in the highest heavens.

to show regard to our forefathers, in performing his holy covenant,

are you wiser than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, as well as his children, and cattle?

our fathers worshipped upon this mountain; and you say, that Jerusalem is the place where we ought to perform our worship.

our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, "he gave them bread from heaven to eat."

your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and there they died.

this is that bread which came down from heaven: very different from that manna, which your fathers did eat but died nevertheless: he that eateth of this bread, shall live for ever.

Moses enjoin'd you circumcision (or rather not Moses, but the patriarchs) accordingly you circumcise a man on the sabbath-day.