21 Bible Verses about The Past

but he that is destitute of them is blind or short-sighted, having forgot he was purified from his past sins.

now whatever was heretofore writ, was writ for our instruction; that we through patience and the comfortable promises of the scriptures might have hope.

that mystery, which has been hid from ages and generations, but is now made manifest to his saints:

for the time past of your lives may suffice, to have liv'd in conformity to the Gentile customs, in impurity, licentiousness, sottishness, in dissolute festivals, and the criminal rites of idolaters.

Jesus Christ is always the same, yesterday, to-day, and for ever. be not then misled by artful, novel doctrines:

who in past ages has let all Nations proceed in their own ways.

therefore, if any man be a christian, he is in a new creation: the old state of things is chang'd to one entirely new.

the holy religious women of former times were thus adorned, and were submissive to their husbands.

Call to remembrance the former times, in which after ye were illuminated, you were forc'd to struggle with sufferings,

among whom you had your conversation, when you followed their practices.

God has been pleas'd to over-look this state of ignorance: but now he enjoins all men every where to repent:

I press towards the mark for the prize to which God has called me from above by Jesus Christ.

and he did deliver me from so terrible a death, and on him I have relied for further deliverance: especially,

they have deserted the faith themselves, and debauch'd the faith of others, by maintaining, "the resurrection is already past."

and display to all the world that mysterious dispensation, which from all past ages has been conceal'd in the secret purpose of God, who created all things:

in which you formerly liv'd, influenc'd by the customs of this world, and by the prince of the aerial powers, the spirits that now actuate the incredulous:

by admonishing you to be mindful of the predictions of the holy prophets, and of the directions of the apostles of our Lord and Saviour.

being engag'd in the same conflict, in which you saw I was formerly, and hear that I am at present engag'd.

for these were only the shadows of future things, prefiguring Christ, who is the substance.