Bible Verses About Genealogy Research

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

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

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.

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

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;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,

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:

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

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

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.

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,

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.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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,

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

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;