17 Bible Verses about past

whereas he who has not these by him is blind, shortsighted, oblivious that he has been cleansed from his erstwhile sins.

they have failed in the Truth by arguing that the resurrection has taken place already, and they are undermining some people's faith.

What a fathomless wealth lies in the wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable his judgments! How mysterious his methods!

Such ages of ignorance God overlooked, but he now charges men that they are all everywhere to repent,

It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over;

You know the story of my past career in Judaism; you know how furiously I persecuted the church of God and harried it,

Many were the forms and fashions in which God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets,

Recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle of suffering,

In bygone ages he allowed all nations to go their own ways,

There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.

to have you recollect the words spoken by the holy prophets beforehand and the command given by your apostles from the Lord and saviour.

It was in this way long ago that the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves. They were submissive to their husbands.