Bible Verses About Ancestry Exploration

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.

When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

And these were they which went up from Tel–melah, Tel–harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:

But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.

And these were they which went up also from Tel–melah, Tel–haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.

O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

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

But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.

He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.

Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh–barnea to see the land.

And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.

And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.

And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.