Bible Verses about “looking back”

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”

“Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”

“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,”

“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”

“¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

“For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:”

“For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”

“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

“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.”

“All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”

“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:”

“He came unto his own, and his own received him not.”

“The same was in the beginning with God.”

“Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

“¶ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”

“In him was life; and the life was the light of men.”

“He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.”

“For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”

“[That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”

“No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].”

“And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.”

“The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all [men] through him might believe.”

“¶ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.”

“He was not that Light, but [was sent] to bear witness of that Light.”

“And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.”

“And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.”

“For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known [it], to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.”

“¶ And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?”

“And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.”

“Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?”

“He said, I [am] the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.”

“And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?”

“There was a man sent from God, whose name [was] John.”

“And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.”

“And Jesus said unto him, ‹No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.›”

“¶ The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”

“But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog [is] turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.”

“¶ John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.”

“Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, ‹What seek ye?› They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?”

“He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.”

“He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.”

“And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.”

“And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!”

“And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, ‹Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas,› which is by interpretation, A stone.”

“Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.”

“And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.”