18 Bible Verses about 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.

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

How inexhaustible God's resources, wisdom, and knowledge are! How unfathomable his decisions are, and how untraceable his ways!

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

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.

For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)??26 to vindicate his justice at the present time, and show that he is upright himself, and that he makes those who have faith in Jesus upright also.

You have heard of my former conduct when I was attached to the Jewish religion??ow furiously I used to persecute the church of God and ravage it,

It was little by little and in different ways that God spoke in old times to our forefathers through the prophets,

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

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.

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

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,