21 Bible Verses about The Past

For the man who lacks these virtues is blind, short-sighted, forgetful of his cleansing from his old sins.

For everything that was written of old has been written for our instruction, that through patience, and through the comfort of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

that secret truth, which, although hidden from ages and generations of old, has now been made manifest to his saints.

For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship.

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

In bygone generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways,

So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come.

For in this way in the olden time the holy women also, who put their trust in God, used to adorn themselves. They were ever in submission to their own husbands;

But ever call to mind the former days, in which, after having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;

among whom you once led your daily life when you lived in them.

"The times of ignorance God overlooked, but he now commands all men that they should all, everywhere, repent;

I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

He delivered me from such a death, and will deliver me. On him I have set my hopes that he will continue to deliver me,

Among such are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have gone astray concerning the truth by declaring that the resurrection is already past; and they are undermining the faith of some.

and should make all men see the new dispensation of that secret purpose, hidden from eternity in the God who founded the universe,

in which you passed your lives after the way of this world, under the sway of the Prince of the Powers of the Air, the spirit who is now working among the sons of disobedience.

I want you to recollect the words that were foretold by the holy prophets, and the command of your Lord and Saviour, given you through your apostles.

while you wage the same conflict which you once saw in me, and now hear that I maintain.

These were a shadow of things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.