5 Bible Verses about Learning From The Past

For whatsoever things were written in former times were written for our instruction, that we through patience and through consolation of the Scriptures may have hope.

Now these things became types for us, that we might not covet evil things, as they also coveted. Neither become ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it has been written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.read more.
Nor let us tempt the Lord, as some of them tempted Him, and perished by the serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer. Now these things were happening to them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the ages have come.

lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau, who, for one meal, yielded up his own birth-right.

For thus, in former times, the holy women also, who hoped in God, were wont to adorn themselves, submitting themselves to their own husbands; as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, of whom ye became children; if ye do good, and fear no alarm.

not as Cain who was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.