21 Bible Verses about The 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!

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.

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

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.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day--yes, and for ever!

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!

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

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

And to which you, like others, once devoted your lives, when you lived for them.

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,

I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward Call which God gave me through Christ Jesus.

And from so imminent a death God delivered us, and will deliver us again; for in him we have placed our hopes of future deliverance, while you, also, help us by your prayers.

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.

And to make clear what is God's way of working out that hidden purpose which from the first has been concealed in the mind of the Creator of all things;

For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the Powers of the air--the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient.

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.

You will be engaged in the same hard struggle as that which you once saw me waging, and which you hear that I am waging still.

These things are only the shadow of what is to come; the substance is in the Christ.