16 Bible Verses about Ancestors

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

And it came to pass, after three days, that he called together those who were chief men of the Jews; and, when they came together, he said to them, "Brethren, having done nothing contrary to the people, or to our ancestral customs, I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans;

whose are the fathers; and of whom, according to flesh, is the Christ, Who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

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

And now, for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers, I have taken my stand to be judged;

As touching the Gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but as touching the election, they are beloved for the Father's sake;

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

and fill ye up the measure of your fathers.

Blessed is the coming Kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the Highest!"

to show mercy towards our fathers, and to remember His holy covenant;

Art Thou greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank of it, and his sons, and his cattle?"

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it has been written, 'He gave them bread out of Heaven to eat.'"

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and died.

This is the Bread That came down out of Heaven. Not as the fathers ate, and died: he that eats this Bread shall live forever."

Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man.