5 Bible Verses about Learning From The Past

Whatever was written in the Scriptures in days gone by was written for our instruction, so that, through patient endurance, and through the encouragement drawn from the Scriptures, we might hold fast to our hope.

Now these things happened as warnings to us, to teach us not to long for evil things as our forefathers longed. Do not become idolaters, as some of them became. Scripture says-'The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance.' Nor let us act immorally, as some of them acted, with the result that twenty-three thousand of them fell dead in a single day.read more.
Nor let us try the patience of the Lord too far, as some of them tried it, with the result that they 'were, one after another, destroyed by the snakes.' And do not murmur, as some of them murmured, and so 'were destroyed by the Angel of Death.' These things happened to them by way of warning, and were recorded to serve as a caution to us, in whose days the close of the ages has come.

Take care that no one becomes immoral, or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

It was by this that the holy women of old, who rested their hopes on God, adorned themselves; submitting to their husbands, as Sarah did, who obeyed Abraham, and called him master. And you are her true children, as long as you live good lives, and let nothing terrify you.

We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? It was because his life was bad while his brother's was good.