What Does the Bible Say About Learning From The Past?

Romans 15:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Deuteronomy 32:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.

Revelation 1:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.

Isaiah 43:18-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

John 6:53 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

Acts 1:1-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” ...

Revelation 18:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;

1 John 2:3-6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.

9 Bible Verses about Learning From The Past

Romans 15:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 32:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Revelation 1:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Isaiah 43:18-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 6:53 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 1:1-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 18:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 2:3-6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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9 Bible Verses about Learning From The Past

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Romans 15:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 32:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Revelation 1:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Isaiah 43:18-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 6:53 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 1:1-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 18:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 2:3-6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote