24 Encouraging Bible Verses About Putting The Past Behind

Sometimes it is hard to put the past behind us and move on but the Bible offers us plenty of advice on how to do so! Study these Bible verses about putting the past behind and be comforted that God is a forgiving God and he always has your back!

Here are 24 encouraging Bible verses about putting the past behind!

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Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O LORD!

- Psalm 25:7

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Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

- Proverbs 22:15

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The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.

- Proverbs 22:3

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Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

- 1 Corinthians 10:11

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Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

- Philippians 3:13-14

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Then he adds, I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more. Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

- Hebrews 10:17-18

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A Maskil of David. Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

- Psalm 32:1-2

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For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”

- Hebrews 8:12

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The LORD upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down.

- Psalm 145:14

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Then Peter came up and said to him, Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times. Jesus said to him, I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.

- Matthew 18:21-22

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bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

- Colossians 3:13

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When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

- Proverbs 11:2

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and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

- Matthew 6:12

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“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;

- Luke 6:37

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The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

- Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

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He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

- Isaiah 40:29-31

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And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.

- Luke 23:34

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For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

- Matthew 6:14-15

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And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

- Mark 11:25

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for the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.

- Proverbs 24:16

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Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

- Ephesians 4:32

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Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

- Psalm 55:22

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

- 1 John 1:9

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And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

- Romans 8:28

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