Forefathers (135 Occurrences)

Matthew 23:30 and your boast is, "'If we had lived in the time of our forefathers, we should not have been implicated with them in the murder of the Prophets.' (WEY NIV)

Matthew 23:32 Fill up the measure of your forefathers' guilt. (WEY NIV)

Luke 1:55 In fulfillment of His promises to our forefathers--For Abraham and his posterity for ever." (WEY)

Luke 1:72 He dealt pitifully with our forefathers, And remembered His holy covenant, (WEY)

Luke 6:23 "Be glad at such a time, and dance for joy; for your reward is great in Heaven; for that is just the way their forefathers behaved to the Prophets! (WEY)

Luke 6:26 "Alas for you when men shall all have spoken well of you; for that is just the way their forefathers behaved to the false Prophets! (WEY)

Luke 11:47 Alas for you! for you repair the tombs of the Prophets, whom your forefathers killed. (WEY NIV)

Luke 11:48 It follows that you bear testimony to the actions of your forefathers and that you fully approve thereof. They slew, you build. (WEY NIV)

John 4:20 Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem." (WEY)

John 6:31 Our forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, as it is written, 'He gave them bread out of Heaven to eat'." (WEY NIV)

John 6:49 Your forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, and they died. (WEY NIV)

John 6:58 This is the bread which came down out of Heaven; it is unlike that which your forefathers ate--for they ate and yet died. He who eats this bread shall live for ever." (WEY NIV)

John 7:22 Consider therefore. Moses gave you the rite of circumcision (not that it began with Moses, but with your earlier forefathers) (WEY)

Acts 3:13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has conferred this honour on His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to let Him go. (WEY)

Acts 3:25 "You are the heirs of the Prophets, and of the Covenant which God made with your forefathers when He said to Abraham, 'And through your posterity all the families of the world shall be blessed.' (WEY)

Acts 5:30 The God of our forefathers has raised Jesus to life, whom you crucified and put to death. (WEY)

Acts 7:11 But there came a famine throughout the whole of Egypt and Canaan--and great distress--so that our forefathers could find no food. (WEY)

Acts 7:12 When, however, Jacob heard that there was wheat to be had, he sent our forefathers into Egypt; that was the first time. (WEY)

Acts 7:15 and Jacob went down into Egypt. There he died, and so did our forefathers, (WEY)

Acts 7:19 He adopted a crafty policy towards our race, and oppressed our forefathers, making them cast out their infants so that they might not be permitted to live. (WEY NIV)

Acts 7:32 "'I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob.' "Quaking with fear Moses did not dare gaze. (WEY)

Acts 7:38 This is he who was among the Congregation in the Desert, together with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and with our forefathers, who received ever-living utterances to hand on to us. (WEY)

Acts 7:39 "Our forefathers, however, would not submit to him, but spurned his authority and in their hearts turned back to Egypt. (WEY)

Acts 7:44 "Our forefathers had the Tent of the Testimony in the Desert, built as He who spoke to Moses had instructed him to make it in imitation of the model which he had seen. (WEY NIV)

Acts 7:45 That Tent was bequeathed to the next generation of our forefathers. Under Joshua they brought it with them when they were taking possession of the land of the Gentile nations, whom God drove out before them. So it continued till David's time. (WEY)

Acts 7:51 "O stiff-necked men, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you also are continually at strife with the Holy Spirit--just as your forefathers were. (WEY)

Acts 7:52 Which of the Prophets did not your forefathers persecute? Yes, they killed those who announced beforehand the advent of the righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become-- (WEY)

Acts 13:17 The God of this people of Israel chose our forefathers, and made the people great during their stay in Egypt, until with wondrous power He brought them out from that land. (WEY)

Acts 13:32 And we bring you the Good News about the promise made to our forefathers, (WEY)

Acts 13:36 For David, after having been useful to his own generation in accordance with God's purpose, did fall asleep, was gathered to his forefathers, and did undergo decay. (WEY)

Acts 15:10 Now, therefore, why try an experiment upon God, by laying on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear? (WEY)

Acts 22:3 "I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I was carefully trained at the feet of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers, and, like all of you to-day, was zealous for God. (WEY)

Acts 22:14 Then he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to know His will, and to see the righteous One and hear Him speak. (WEY)

Acts 24:14 But this I confess to you--that in the way which they style a heresy, I worship the God of our forefathers, believing everything that is taught in the Law or is written in the Prophets, (WEY)

Acts 26:6 And now I stand here impeached because of my hope in the fulfilment of the promise made by God to our forefathers-- (WEY)

Acts 28:17 After one complete day he invited the leading men among the Jews to meet him; and, when they were come together, he said to them, "As for me, brethren, although I had done nothing prejudicial to our people or contrary to the customs of our forefathers, I was handed over as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the power of the Romans. (WEY DBY)

Acts 28:25 Unable to agree among themselves, they at last left him, but not before Paul had spoken a parting word to them, saying, "Right well did the Holy Spirit say to your forefathers through the Prophet Isaiah: (WEY NIV)

Romans 11:28 In relation to the Good News, the Jews are God's enemies for your sakes; but in relation to God's choice they are dearly loved for the sake of their forefathers. (WEY RSV)

Romans 15:8 My meaning is that Christ has become a servant to the people of Israel in vindication of God's truthfulness-- in showing how sure are the promises made to our forefathers-- (WEY)

1 Corinthians 10:1 For I would have you remember, brethren, how our forefathers were all of them sheltered by the cloud, and all got safely through the Red Sea. (WEY NIV)

Galatians 1:14 and how in devotion to Judaism I outstripped many men of my own age among my people, being far more zealous than they on behalf of the traditions of my forefathers. (WEY)

2 Timothy 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS NIV)

Hebrews 1:1 God, who in ancient days spoke to our forefathers in many distinct messages and by various methods through the Prophets, (WEY NIV)

Hebrews 3:8 do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation on the day of the temptation in the Desert, (WEY)

Hebrews 3:9 where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during forty years. (WEY)

Hebrews 3:15 seeing that the warning still comes to us, "To-day, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation." (WEY)

Hebrews 8:9 a Covenant unlike the one which I made with their forefathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out from the land of Egypt; for they would not remain faithful to that.' 'So I turned from them,' says the Lord. (WEY NIV)

1 Peter 1:18 knowing, as you do, that it was not with a ransom of perishable wealth, such as silver or gold, that you were set free from your frivolous habits of life which had been handed down to you from your forefathers, (WEY NAS NIV)

2 Peter 3:4 and, asking, "What has become of His promised Return? For from the time our forefathers fell asleep all things continue as they have been ever since the creation of the world." (WEY)

Exodus 10:6 Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.'" He turned, and went out from Pharaoh. (See NIV)

Exodus 13:5 It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month. (See NIV)

Exodus 13:11 "It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it you, (See NIV)

Leviticus 25:41 then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers. (See NAS NIV)

Leviticus 26:39 Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. (See NAS)

Leviticus 26:40 And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me; (See NAS)

Leviticus 26:45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD. (See RSV)

Numbers 11:12 Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that Thou shouldest say unto me: Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carrieth the sucking child, unto the land which Thou didst swear unto their fathers? (See NIV)

Numbers 14:23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it: (See NIV)

Numbers 36:4 When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers." (See NIV)

Numbers 36:7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. (See NIV)

Deuteronomy 1:35 "Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers, (See NIV)

Deuteronomy 4:31 for the LORD thy God is a merciful God; He will not fail thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which He swore unto them. (See NIV)

Deuteronomy 4:37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt; (See NIV)

Deuteronomy 6:18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers, (See NIV)

Deuteronomy 6:23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers. (See NIV)

Deuteronomy 7:8 But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. (See NAS NIV)

Deuteronomy 7:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: (See NAS NIV)

Deuteronomy 7:13 and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. (See NAS NIV)

Deuteronomy 8:1 You shall observe to do all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers. (See NAS NIV)

Deuteronomy 8:18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God, for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore unto thy fathers, as it is this day. (See NIV)

Deuteronomy 10:15 But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day. (See NIV)

Deuteronomy 11:9 and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey. (See NIV)

Deuteronomy 11:21 that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth. (See NIV)

Deuteronomy 13:17 Keep not a thing of what is cursed for yourselves: so the Lord may be turned away from the heat of his wrath, and have mercy on you, and give you increase as he said in his oath to your fathers: (See NIV)

Deuteronomy 19:8 If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers; (See NIV)

Deuteronomy 26:3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us. (See NIV)

Deuteronomy 26:15 Look forth from Thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Thy people Israel, and the land which Thou hast given us, as Thou didst swear unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.' (See NIV)

Deuteronomy 28:11 And the LORD will make thee over-abundant for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, in the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers to give thee. (See NIV)

Deuteronomy 31:7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel: 'Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt go with this people into the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. (See NIV)

Deuteronomy 31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, flowing with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten their fill, and waxen fat; and turned unto other gods, and served them, and despised Me, and broken My covenant; (See NIV)

Joshua 1:6 Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I swore unto their fathers to give them. (See NIV)

Joshua 21:43 So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers. They possessed it, and lived in it. (See NIV)

Joshua 21:44 And the Lord gave them peace on every side, as he had said to their fathers: all those who were against them gave way before them, for the Lord gave them all up into their hands. (See NIV)

Joshua 24:2 Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel,'Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods. (See NIV)

Joshua 24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve Him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. (See NIV)

Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.' (See NIV)

Judges 2:1 The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, "I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said,'I will never break my covenant with you: (See NIV)

Judges 2:20 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel; and he said, "Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice; (See NIV)

Judges 2:22 that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not." (See NIV)

Judges 3:4 For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses. (See NIV)

1 Samuel 12:6 Samuel said to the people, "It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. (See NIV)

1 Samuel 12:8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, then your fathers cried unto the LORD, and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and they were made to dwell in this place. (See NIV)

1 Kings 14:15 for the LORD will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will root up Israel out of this good land, which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River; because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD. (See NIV)

2 Kings 19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar? (See NIV)

2 Kings 21:8 neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them." (See NIV)

2 Kings 21:15 because they have done that which is evil in My sight, and have provoked Me, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.' (See NIV)

1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are strangers before Thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding. (See NIV)

2 Chronicles 33:8 neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers; if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.' (See NIV)

Nehemiah 9:9 You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea, (See NIV)

Nehemiah 9:36 Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that Thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it. (See NIV)

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Forefathers (135 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Forefathers (135 Occurrences). ... Matthew 23:32 Fill
up the measure of your forefathers' guilt. (WEY NIV). ...
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Forefather (33 Occurrences)
... for'-fa-ther: (1) 'abh ri'shon, "first father," "chief father," hence, "early ancestor":
"turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers" (Jeremiah 11:10). ...
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Unlike (13 Occurrences)
... Unlike (13 Occurrences). John 6:58 This is the bread which came down out of Heaven;
it is unlike that which your forefathers ate--for they ate and yet died. ...
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Posterity (38 Occurrences)
... Posterity (38 Occurrences). Luke 1:55 In fulfillment of His promises to our
forefathers--For Abraham and his posterity for ever." (WEY RSV). ...
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Behaved (21 Occurrences)
... Luke 6:23 "Be glad at such a time, and dance for joy; for your reward is great in
Heaven; for that is just the way their forefathers behaved to the Prophets! ...
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Desert (322 Occurrences)
... from heaven to eat. (KJV WEY WBS NIV). John 6:49 Your forefathers ate the
manna in the Desert, and they died. (WEY NIV). John 11:54 ...
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To-day (208 Occurrences)
... I was carefully trained at the feet of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers,
and, like all of you to-day, was zealous for God. (WEY YLT). ...
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Tent (333 Occurrences)
... Acts 7:44 "Our forefathers had the Tent of the Testimony in the Desert, built as
He who spoke to Moses had instructed him to make it in imitation of the model ...
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Machpelah (6 Occurrences)
... in another place he writes of Isaac being buried by his sons with his wife in Hebron
where they had a monument belonging to them from their forefathers (Ant., I ...
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Iniquities (59 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Psalms 79:8 Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.
Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need. ...
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3970b. patroparadotos -- handed down from one's fathers
... Word Origin from pater and paradidomi Definition handed down from one's fathers
NASB Word Usage inherited from...forefathers (1). << 3970a, 3970b. ...
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3970. patroparadotos -- one who kills one's father
... 3970 (from 3962 , "father" and 3860 , "pass something on") -- properly, , handed
down from forefathers; the "traditional" way of doing something, ie as passed ...
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4269. progonos -- born before
... ancestor. Word Origin from proginomai Definition born before NASB Word Usage
forefathers (1), parents (1). forefather, parent. From ...
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