'Descent' in the Bible

And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;

who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.

and Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of high-priestly descent.

who, as regards His human descent, belonged to the posterity of David,

For I could almost wish to be cursed and cut off from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my own flesh and blood.

The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Messiah, who is God over all, praised forever. Amen.

That is, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but the children of the promise are considered to be the offspring.

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

And we, [believing] brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children [not merely of physical descent, like Ishmael, but are children born] of promise [born miraculously].

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

who did not become a priest based on a legal command concerning physical descent but based on the power of an indestructible life.

Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying, "Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones,