Bible Verses about “living in the past”
The Bible contains 14 verses about living in the past across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
“Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,”
“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”
“The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.”
“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert.”
“Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.”
“Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:”
“[They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.”
“And Jesus said unto him, ‹No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.›”
“For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”
“Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.”
“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.”