52 Bible Verses about The Past

“Do not remember the former things,
Or ponder the things of the past.

“Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will inform you,
Your elders, and they will tell you.

I will [solemnly] remember the deeds of the Lord;
Yes, I will [wholeheartedly] remember Your wonders of old.

“Remember [carefully] the former things [which I did] from ages past;
For I am God, and there is no one else;
I am God, and there is no one like Me,

“Indeed, the former things have come to pass,
Now I declare new things;
Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”

That which is has already been, and that which will be has already been, for God seeks what has passed by [so that history repeats itself].

For whoever lacks these qualities is blind—shortsighted [closing his spiritual eyes to the truth], having become oblivious to the fact that he was cleansed from his old sins.

For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope and overflow with confidence in His promises.

“Behold, I am creating new heavens and a new earth;
And the former things [of life] will not be remembered or come to mind.

that is, the mystery which was hidden [from angels and mankind] for ages and generations, but has now been revealed to His saints (God’s people).

“Though your beginning was insignificant,
Yet your end will greatly increase.

“Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him;
The number of His years is unsearchable.

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?”
For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this.

For the time already past is [more than] enough for doing what the [unsaved] Gentiles like to do—living [unrestrained as you have done] in a course of [shameless] sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries.

“Then a spirit passed before my face;
The hair on my skin stood on end!

“For you would forget your trouble;
You would remember it as waters that have passed by.

Jesus Christ is [eternally changeless, always] the same yesterday and today and forever.

In generations past He permitted all the nations to go their own ways;

I have considered the ancient days,
The years [of prosperity] of long, long ago.

“Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You [in Your control],
And You have made his limits so he cannot pass [his allotted time].

‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and in this place I shall give [the ultimate] peace and prosperity,’ declares the Lord of hosts.”

Therefore if anyone is in Christ [that is, grafted in, joined to Him by faith in Him as Savior], he is a new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit]; the old things [the previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold, new things have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life].

“The harvest is past, the summer has ended and the gathering of fruit is over,
But we are not saved,” [comes the voice of the people again].

“Remind Me [of your merits with a thorough report], let us plead and argue our case together;
State your position, that you may be proved right.

Declaring the end and the result from the beginning,
And from ancient times the things which have not [yet] been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
And I will do all that pleases Me and fulfills My purpose,’

For in this way in former times the holy women, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands and adapting themselves to them;

But remember the earlier days, when, after being [spiritually] enlightened, you [patiently] endured a great conflict of sufferings,

I remember the days of old;
I meditate on all that You have done;
I ponder the work of Your hands.

and in these [sinful things] you also once walked, when you were habitually living in them [without the knowledge of Christ].

For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it is past,
Or as a watch in the night.

“I have declared the former things [which happened to Israel] in times past;
They went forth from My mouth and I proclaimed them;
Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

“Inquire, please, of past generations,
And consider and apply yourself to the things searched out by their fathers.

Therefore God overlooked and disregarded the former ages of ignorance; but now He commands all people everywhere to repent [that is, to change their old way of thinking, to regret their past sins, and to seek God’s purpose for their lives],

I press on toward the goal to win the [heavenly] prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

For no one knows what will happen;
So who can tell him how and when it will happen?

“Oh, that I were as in the months of old,
As in the days when God watched over me,

He rescued us from so great a threat of death, and will continue to rescue us. On Him we have set our hope. And He will again rescue us [from danger and draw us near],

‘For behold, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone.

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
According to Your lovingkindness remember me,
For Your goodness’ sake, O Lord.

who have deviated from the truth. They claim that the resurrection has already taken place, and they undermine the faith of some.

and to make plain [to everyone] the plan of the mystery [regarding the uniting of believing Jews and Gentiles into one body] which [until now] was kept hidden through the ages in [the mind of] God who created all things.

in which you once walked. You were following the ways of this world [influenced by this present age], in accordance with the prince of the power of the air (Satan), the spirit who is now at work in the disobedient [the unbelieving, who fight against the purposes of God].

There is no remembrance of earlier things,
Nor also of the later things that are to come;
There will be for them no remembrance
By generations who will come after them.

that you should remember the words spoken in the past [about the future] by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior given by your apostles [His personally chosen representatives].

Do not enter the path of the wicked,
And do not go the way of evil men.

“Even from eternity I am He,
And there is no one who can rescue from My hand;
I act, and who can revoke or reverse it?”

[and so you are] experiencing the same [kind of] conflict which you saw me endure, and which you hear to be mine now.

I went by the field of the lazy man,
And by the vineyard of the man lacking understanding and common sense;

Such things are only a shadow of what is to come and they have only symbolic value; but the substance [the reality of what is foreshadowed] belongs to Christ.

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in years; she was past [the age of] childbearing.