20 Bible Verses about The Past

For whoever lacks these qualities is blind or near-sighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his former sins.

For everything that was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that by being steadfast and through the encouragement the Scriptures give, we might hold our hope fast.

You have spent time enough in the past in doing as the heathen like to do, indulging in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, dissipation, and detestable idolatry.

Jesus Christ is the same today that he was yesterday, and he will be so forever.

In ages past he let all the heathen follow their own ways;

So if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new being; the old state of things has passed away; there is a new state of things.

It was in that way in ancient times that those pious women who set their hopes on God made themselves attractive. They were submissive to their husbands,

But you must remember those early days when after you had received the light you had to go through a great struggle with persecution,

And you once practiced them as others do, when you lived that old earthly life.

While God overlooked those times of ignorance, he now calls upon all men everywhere to repent,

I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.

So deadly was the peril from which he saved me, as he will save me again! It is on him that I have set my hope that he will save me again.

who have missed the truth and say that the resurrection has taken place already, thus undermining people's faith.

and making clear how the secret purpose is to be worked out which has been hidden away for ages in God the creator of all things,

in the midst of which you once lived under the control of the present age of the world, and the master-spirit of the air, who is still at work among the disobedient.

to remember the things foretold by the holy prophets, and the command of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.

Take your part in the same struggle that you have seen me engage in and that you hear I am still keeping up.

That was all only the shadow of something that was to follow; the reality is found in Christ.