What Does the Bible Say About Our Past?

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 John 4:1-3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Hebrews 1:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 6:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Matthew 16:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Jude 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—

1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

James 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!

James 1:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Romans 8:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

17 Bible Verses about Our Past

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes

1 John 4:1-3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Hebrews 1:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 6:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 16:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jude 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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17 Bible Verses about Our Past

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2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes

1 John 4:1-3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Hebrews 1:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 6:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 16:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jude 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote