5 Bible Verses about Learning From The Past

For those things which were written before were written for our instruction, that through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures we may have hope.

But these things are examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they did. Neither be idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written; The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did and fell in one day twenty-three thousand.read more.
Neither let us try Christ, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents. Neither do you complain as some of them complained and were destroyed by the destroyer. All these things happened to them as examples, and are recorded for our admonition on whom the ends of the ages have come;

that no one may be a fornicator or unholy person like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.

For so formerly also the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves, being subject to their husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose children you are, doing good and having no fear.

not as Cain was of the evil one and killed his brother; and why did he kill him? because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.