16 Bible Verses about Ancestors

Was not Abraham our ancestor justified by deeds, in that he offered up Isaac, his son, upon the altar?

Now three days later he called the leading Jews together, and when they were come together he said to them. "Brothers, I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of your fathers.

theirs are the patriarchs, and of them, as concerning the flesh, is Christ, who is over all, God, blessed forever, Amen.

for Levi was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met Abraham.

"Today I am standing trial because of the hope of the promise made by God to our ancestors,

In relation to the gospel, the Jews are God's enemies for your sake; but in relation to the election, they are dearly loved for their forefather's sake.

"'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been their comrades in the murder of the prophets.'

"Fill up then the measure of your fathers!

Blessed be the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna, in the highest!"

"He showed mercy to our forefathers, He remembered his holy covenant,

Surely you are not greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, and used to drink from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle, too?"

"Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain, yet you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship."

"Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness, as it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"

"Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; yet they died.

"This is the bread which came down from heaven; not such as your fathers ate and died, for he who feeds upon this bread shall live forever."

"Consider, therefore, Moses has given you circumcision??ot that Moses originated it, but the fathers??nd you are accustomed to circumcise a child even on the Sabbath.