19 Bible Verses about past

For the man in whom they are lacking is blind and cannot see distant objects, in that he has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his old sins.

the truth which has been kept secret from all ages and generations, but has now been revealed to His people,

For all that was written of old has been written for our instruction, so that we may always have hope through the power of endurance and the encouragement which the Scriptures afford.

In the matter of the truth they have gone astray, saying that the Resurrection is already past, and so they are overthrowing the faith of some.

Oh, how inexhaustible are God's resources and God's wisdom and God's knowledge! How impossible it is to search into His decrees or trace His footsteps!

Those times of ignorance God viewed with indulgence. But now He commands all men everywhere to repent,

For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in-- pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship.

He it is whom God put forward as a Mercy-seat, rendered efficacious through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness-- because of the passing over, in God's forbearance, of the sins previously committed--

For you have heard of my early career in Judaism--how I furiously persecuted the Church of God, and made havoc of it;

God, who in ancient days spoke to our forefathers in many distinct messages and by various methods through the Prophets,

But continually recall to mind the days now past, when on being first enlightened you went through a great conflict and many sufferings.

In times gone by He allowed all the nations to go their own ways;

So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things has come into existence.

so that you may recall the words spoken long ago by the holy Prophets, and the commandments of our Lord and Saviour given you through your Apostles.

For in ancient times also this was the way the holy women who set their hopes upon God used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their husbands.