8 Bible Verses about Patriarchs

Now see how great this man must have been to have the patriarch Abraham give him a tenth of the spoil.

Yet Moses gave you the rite of circumcision??ot that it began with Moses but with your forefathers??nd you practice it even on the Sabbath.

And he made the agreement of circumcision with him, and so Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs. The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into slavery in Egypt. But God was with him,

and the patriarchs, and from them physically Christ came??od who is over all be blessed forever! Amen.

From the point of view of the good news they are treated as enemies of God on your account; but from the point of view of God's choice, they are dear to him because of their forefathers,

I hold that Christ has become an agent of circumcision to show God's truthfulness in carrying out the promises made to our forefathers,

"Brothers, one may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he died and was buried, and his grave is here among us to this very day.