21 Bible Verses about The Past

For the man in whom they are lacking is blind and cannot see distant objects, in that he has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his old sins.

For all that was written of old has been written for our instruction, so that we may always have hope through the power of endurance and the encouragement which the Scriptures afford.

the truth which has been kept secret from all ages and generations, but has now been revealed to His people,

For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in-- pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day--yes, and to the ages to come.

In times gone by He allowed all the nations to go their own ways;

So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things has come into existence.

For in ancient times also this was the way the holy women who set their hopes upon God used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their husbands.

But continually recall to mind the days now past, when on being first enlightened you went through a great conflict and many sufferings.

and you also were once addicted to them, while you were living under their power.

Those times of ignorance God viewed with indulgence. But now He commands all men everywhere to repent,

with my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

He it is who rescued us from so imminent a death, and will do so again; and we have a firm hope in Him that He will also rescue us in all the future,

In the matter of the truth they have gone astray, saying that the Resurrection is already past, and so they are overthrowing the faith of some.

and to show all men in a clear light what my stewardship is. It is the stewardship of the truth which from all the Ages lay concealed in the mind of God, the Creator of all things--

which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air, the spirits that are now at work in the hearts of the sons of disobedience--to you God has given Life.

so that you may recall the words spoken long ago by the holy Prophets, and the commandments of our Lord and Saviour given you through your Apostles.

maintaining, as you do, the same kind of conflict that you once saw in me and which you still hear that I am engaged in.

These were a shadow of things that were soon to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.