16 Bible Verses about Ancestors
Most Relevant Verses
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
And after three days he called the chief men of the Jews together; and when they had convened, said to them, Men and brothers, having done nothing contrary to the people or to the customs of the fathers, I was delivered up from Jerusalem a prisoner into the hands of the Romans,
whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh. He who is over all is God blessed forever, amen.
And now I stand on trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
As to the gospel, they are enemies on your account, but as to the election, they are beloved on account of the fathers;
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.
Blessed is the kingdom of our father David, which is coming! Hosanna in the highest [heavens]!
to perform his mercy with our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant,
Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and who drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
Our fathers eat the manna in the wilderness, as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
This is the bread which came down from heaven; not as your fathers eat and died, he that eats this bread shall live forever.
Moses gave you circumcision, not that it is of Moses but of the fathers, and you circumcise a man on the sabbath.
