19 Bible Verses about past

Surely the man who has not these virtues is shortsighted even to blindness, and has chosen to forget that he has been purified from his sins of the past!

That Truth which has been hidden from former ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to God's People,

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.

They have gone completely astray as regards the Truth; they say that a resurrection has already taken place, and so upset some people's faith.

Oh! the unfathomable wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments, how untraceable his ways! Yes--

True, God looked with indulgence on the days of men's ignorance, but now he is announcing to every one everywhere the need for repentance,

Surely in the past you have spent time enough living as the Gentiles delight to live. For your path has lain among scenes of debauchery, licentiousness, drunkenness, revelry, hard-drinking, and profane idolatry.

For God set him before the world, to be, by the shedding of his blood, a means of reconciliation through faith. And this God did to prove his righteousness, and because, in his forbearance, he had passed over the sins that men had previously committed;

You heard, no doubt, of my conduct when I was devoted to Judaism--how I persecuted the Church of God to an extent beyond belief, and made havoc of it,

God, who, of old, at many times and in many ways, spoke to our ancestors, by the Prophets,

Call to mind those early days in which, after you had received the Light, you patiently underwent a long and painful conflict.

In bygone times he permitted all the nations to go their own ways.

Therefore, if any one is in union with Christ, he is a new being! His old life has passed away; a new life has begun!

I want you to recall what was foretold by the holy Prophets, as well as the Command of our Lord and Savior given to you through your Apostles.

It was by this that the holy women of old, who rested their hopes on God, adorned themselves; submitting to their husbands,