31 Bible Verses about Ancestors

I will therefore remember unto them the first covenant made when I brought them out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen to be their God: for I am the LORD.'"

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

"Thus sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of Judah, I will not spare him: because he hath cast aside the law of the LORD, and not kept his commandments: For why? They would needs be deceived with the lies that their forefathers followed.

When he saw that, he arose and went for his life, and came to Beersheba in Judah, and left his lad there. And he went a day's journey into the wilderness, and when he was come sat down under a Juniper tree, and desired for his soul, that he might die, and said, "It is now enough, O LORD, take my soul; for I am not better than my fathers."

And it fortuned, after three days, that Paul called the chief of the Jews together. And when they were come, he said unto them, "Men and brethren, though I have committed no thing against the people, or laws of our fathers: yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

And the tribe of Manasseh which was the eldest son of Joseph received a lot. And Machir, the eldest son of Manasseh, which was the father of Gilead and a man of war, had Gilead and Bashan.

And Shem the father of all the children of Eber and the eldest brother of Japheth, begat children also.

whose also are the fathers, and they of whom; as concerning the flesh; Christ came: which is God over all things, blessed forever. Amen.

For he was yet in the loins of his father Abraham, when Melchizedek met him.

and say, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God unto Jerusalem: Thy progeny and kindred came out of the land of Canaan, thy father was an Amorite, thy mother a Hittite.

These are the three sons of Noah, and of these was all the world overspread.

The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us: we are they, which are all here alive this day.

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:

Thou shalt not remove the landmark, which thy fore elders have set.

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are loved for the fathers' sake.

"'And I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham, and will think on the land.

'None of the men that came out of Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land which I swore unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, because they have not continually followed me:

Behold, I have set the land before you: go in therefore and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give unto them and their seed after them.'

in that thou lovest the LORD thy God, hearkenest unto his voice and cleavest unto him. For he is thy life and the length of thy days, that thou mayest dwell upon the earth which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give them."

For to make thee a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

And he said, "Behold, thou son of man: I will send thee to the children of Israel, to those renegades and obstinate people - for they have taken part against me, and are run away from me: both they and their forefathers unto this day.

and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets.'

Fulfill ye likewise the measure of your fathers:

Blessed be the kingdom that cometh in the name of him that is Lord of our father David. Hosanna in the highest."

To fulfill the mercy promised to our fathers; And to remember his holy covenant;

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and he himself drank thereof and his children and his cattle?"

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain: and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to 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 are dead.

This is the bread which came from heaven: not as your fathers have eaten manna and are dead. He that eateth of this bread, shall live ever."

Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision: not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers. And yet ye on the Sabbath day circumcise a man.