19 Bible Verses about past

For whoever lacks these qualities is blind -- or short-sighted-- and forgetful of the cleansing that he has received from his former sins.

the open secret, covered up from the people of former ages and generations, but now uncovered to God's people,

For everything that was written in the earlier times was written for our instruction, so that by our patient endurance and through the encouragement the Scriptures bring we might continuously cherish our hope.

who have missed the truth by saying that the resurrection has already taken place, are undermining some people's faith.

How fathomless the depths of God's resources, wisdom, and knowledge! How unsearchable His decisions, and how mysterious His methods!

Though God overlooked those times of ignorance, He now commands all men everywhere to repent,

For the time that is past is enough for you to have accomplished what the heathen like to do, leading lives that are steeped in sensuality, lustful desires, drunkenness, carousing, revelry, dissipation, and idolatry that leads to lawlessness,

For God once publicly offered Him in His death as a sacrifice of reconciliation through faith, to demonstrate His own justice (for in His forbearance God had passed over men's former sins);

You have heard, indeed, of my former conduct as an adherent of the Jewish religion, how I kept on furiously persecuting the church of God, and tried to destroy it,

It was bit by bit and in many different ways that God in olden times spoke to our forefathers through the prophets,

But you must continue to remember those earlier days when first you received the light and then endured so great a struggle with persecution,

In ages past He let all the heathen go on in their own ways;

For if anybody is in union with Christ, he is the work of a new creation; the old condition has passed away, a new condition has come.

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

For this is the way the pious women of olden times, who set their hope on God, used to adorn themselves.