Bible Verses About Genealogical Research

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!

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

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.

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

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

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

All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

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

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

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

And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

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

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

These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

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

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 Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

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

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

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

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

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

Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim,

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

So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.

Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

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;

And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.