21 Bible Verses about The Past

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

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.

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

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,

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yes, forever.

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.

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

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

You too used to practice these sins, when you used to live that sort of life.

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

I am pressing onward toward the goal, to win the prize to which God through Jesus Christ is calling us upward.

He saved me from a death so horrible, and He will save me again! He it is on whom I have set my hope that He will still save me,

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

and to make clear how is to be carried out the trusteeship of this secret which has for ages been hidden away in God, the Creator of all things,

in which you once lived in accordance with the spirit of this present world, and the mighty prince of the air, who is always at work in the disobedient, among whom all of us, we Jews as well as you heathen,

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

since you are having the same struggle that you once saw me have and which you hear that I am still having.

These were but the shadow of what was coming; the reality belongs to Christ.