50 Bible Verses about The Past

Give no thought to the things which are past; let the early times go out of your minds.

Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.

I will keep in mind the works of Jah: I will keep the memory of your wonders in the past.

Let the things which are past come to your memory: for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me;

See, the things said before have come about, and now I give word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.

Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.

For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.

For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.

The secret which has been kept from all times and generations, but has now been made clear to his saints,

And though your start was small, your end will be very great.

Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.

Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.

Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

And a breath was moving over my face; the hair of my flesh became stiff:

For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.

Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.

My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone.

If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

The second glory of this house will be greater than the first, says the Lord of armies: and in this place I will give peace, says the Lord of armies.

So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.

The grain-cutting is past, the summer is ended, and no salvation has come to us.

Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.

Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;

And these were the ornaments of the holy women of the past, whose hope was in God, being ruled by their husbands:

But give thought to the days after you had seen the light, when you went through a great war of troubles;

Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.

I gave word in the past of the things which came about; they came from my mouth, and I made them clear: suddenly I did them, and they came about.

Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:

I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.

No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!

Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;

For, see, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some.

And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

There is no memory of those who have gone before, and of those who come after there will be no memory for those who are still to come after them.

So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and Saviour which was given to you by his Apostles.

Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?

Fighting the same fight which you saw in me, and now have word of in me.

I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;

For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.

Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth.