This blog is going to be about the Bible. We are going to talk about some of the verses in the Bible that talk about our present, past, and future. I believe that it is important to know what God has said about us and how He feels about us. It also helps us better understand what He expects from us as well as what we can expect from Him. There are many ways to look at the Bible. There are books of the Bible that focus on the past, books that focus on the present and books that focus on what’s coming.
It’s important to know that these three perspectives aren’t contradictory or incompatible, but rather complementary and interrelated. So what is this blog going to be about? It’s going to be about how we can better understand God’s word by looking at it from all three of these perspectives. We’re going to do this by learning more about each of them and how they relate to one another.
Bible Verses About Past Present And Future
God helps us think about the past and plan for the future. We may have regrets, or bad choices and pain from our past. But when we accept God’s mercy and grace, he restores us and gives us hope for our future.
The Bible study pages give you daily reading that you can read in just a few minutes, or it can be used as a base on which to meditate and grow. You will find that the verses have been carefully chosen with thought and prayer so that you are encouraged through all three seasons of life: past, present and future.
The Bible is a book of history and love. From its pages we can see the past, hear God’s voice speaking to us now, and look forward to life in Christ forever. Discover what our Creator knew about past, present, and future as you read through these 30 Scripture verses about your time on Earth and beyond!
When it comes to the Bible, there are numerous verses that discuss the concept of past, present, and future. These verses provide guidance, comfort, and wisdom for navigating through the different seasons of life. Let’s explore some of these verses below:
1. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
2. Isaiah 43:18-19
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
3. Philippians 3:13-14
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
4. Proverbs 27:1
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
5. Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
6. 2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
7. Psalm 46:10
Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
8. Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
9. Ecclesiastes 7:10
Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.
10. Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Past, Present, And Future Sins Scripture
You probably have a friend or family member who has told the same story dozens of times, but somehow, each time, you are still interested in hearing it. Stories that have this kind of staying power are not simply entertaining. They are instructive. They are about the past but affect the present and might even point the way to a future.
That’s what we want to do with Scripture. We want to be able to tell and retell the story and have it shape us. This will help us remember it and quickly return to it when life’s troubles come our way.
Ephesians 1:3–14 is a particularly rich way of telling the story of Scripture, and Paul’s excitement is such that the original passage is one long, breathless sentence. The flow of his thought goes from past, to present, to future.
Past
Our past is a mess of good and horrible things. The way we tell it at age twenty is different from the way we tell it at sixty. Paul assumes we all have our particular stories; he is telling the deeper one, one that we are all a part of:
He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 1:4–5)
And what does this story of being chosen and predestined for adoption have to do with past victimization, rejection, or loss? It certainly does not minimize them. If anything, it shows their wrongness even more vividly because they are against God and his original intent. What the story does is counterbalance our past with a story of love, grace, and belonging that says, “Evil and misery will not win,” and “Things are not what they seem.” Every retelling of the story, as it gathers more details of the blessings we have in Jesus, adds more weight to the master story.
This is reality for those who follow Jesus. He pursued us. He adopted us and loved us. This means that life in Christ is not an extended probation. Since his love is not dependent on our vacillating allegiances but on choices he made long ago, we rest in Jesus and have a revitalized purpose now that we are in the royal family.
Present
God’s persistent love through the ages moves to redemption and forgiveness of sins in the present. Everything hinges on this. If we are left in our sin, then we are separated from God. Only Christ’s surprising sacrifice for us can bring the holy God so close that he never leaves.
God’s persistent love through the ages moves to redemption and forgiveness of sins in the present.
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespesses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose. (Ephesians 1:7–9)
Why bother retelling that? Forgiveness can seem a bit remote to people who either believe that their sins are not too big a deal or believe that forgiveness is too good to be true. Either way, Jesus is marginalized from daily life, and thankfulness is dependent on the events of the day rather than the unchanging blessings of God.
This part of the story sings when we remember that we are, indeed, sinners who turn away from God. Even when we care about others, we can never root out the selfishness, and, too often, obedience is merely a happy coincidence between what we want to do and what God says. So this deeper story works best when we are in the habit of confessing sins—”Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors”
A good story ends well. Hope is essential to the human life. Without it we try to stay busy enough so that we are distracted by the bleak realities ahead. God’s master story, of course, is the story of hope.
A plan has been set forth in Jesus Christ, a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In him you, when you believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. (assembled pieces of Ephesians 1:9–14)
The part about “all things . . . in heaven and things on earth”? God’s plans are to restore us—and creation itself. All things amiss now are to be gathered under the activity of King Jesus. Everything will be made right. Something is afoot. Not only do we personally know forgiveness of sins; we are also brought into God’s plans to restore justice, beauty, reconciliation, and mercy. When we come to Jesus, life is suddenly jammed with purpose.
There are ways that we participate in those purposes even now. We have been brought into God’s reclamation project, and simple acts of love, which echo God’s justice, beauty, reconciliation, and mercy, are now incorporated into his kingdom plans. Everything done because of Jesus contributes to these final purposes. Death does not diminish them.
This hope strengthens us in the hardships and drudgeries of everyday life. Knowing where all things in heaven and earth are headed, we can wait and persevere (1 Thessalonians 1:2), and endurance or perseverance is key to a life well lived. Without it we are left with grumbling, addiction, or despair. With it, we look ahead and tell a different story than the present distress tries to tell. Whereas chronic suffering assumes that nothing will ever change, hope knows that our rescuer is committed to our good. Hope knows the love of Jesus and grows in confidence that all the promises God makes have already been yes in Jesus.
Philippians 3:13-14
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
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Isaiah 43:18-19
18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
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Galatians 2:20-21
20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”
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Matthew 6:15
15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
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Acts 2:38
38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
God KnowsPast, Present Future Bible Verse
Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 260 helpful votes
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 217 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
James 4:13-15 ESV / 153 helpful votes
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 125 helpful votes
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.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 102 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
John 16:33 ESV / 83 helpful votes
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 60 helpful votes
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Proverbs 19:21 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
Matthew 11:28 ESV / 55 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Ecclesiastes 7:14 ESV / 55 helpful votes
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10 ESV / 53 helpful votes
But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
Romans 15:13 ESV / 46 helpful votes
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
James 4:13-17 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
Philippians 3:20-21 ESV / 36 helpful votes
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 36 helpful votes
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Philippians 1:6 ESV / 33 helpful votes
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 21:4 ESV / 32 helpful votes
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Proverbs 27:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Romans 8:18 ESV / 31 helpful votes
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
Proverbs 23:18 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 25 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Romans 12:12 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Psalm 32:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ESV / 24 helpful votes
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Romans 15:4 ESV / 24 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.
Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Titus 2:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 1:3-4 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,
John 14:6 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Matthew 6:31-33 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
God Controls The Past Present And Future
Proverbs 24:14 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
John 14:1-3 ESV / 19 helpful votes
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Luke 12:32 ESV / 19 helpful votes
“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV / 19 helpful votes
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Jeremiah 31:17 ESV / 19 helpful votes
There is hope for your future, declares the Lord, and your children shall come back to their own country.
Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 19 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
Isaiah 46:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Romans 8:32 ESV / 17 helpful votes
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
James 4:13-16 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Matthew 6:34 ESV / 16 helpful votes
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Daniel 12:4 ESV / 16 helpful votes
But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
1 John 3:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
Luke 14:28 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. …
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:18-25 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. …
Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. …
Isaiah 55:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Proverbs 24:13-14 ESV / 14 helpful votes
My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste. Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
What Does The Bible Say About Past Present And Future
Proverbs 23:17-18 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day. Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
Psalm 37:37 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
Titus 1:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
2 Timothy 3:1-17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. …
1 Thessalonians 5:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Philippians 3:20 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
John 14:27 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Isaiah 43:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.
Proverbs 24:20 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
1 John 3:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV / 12 helpful votes
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Psalm 42:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
Psalm 37:25 ESV / 12 helpful votes
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.
Daniel 2:45 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”
Daniel 2:44 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,
Jeremiah 27:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’
Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.
Psalm 138:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
Genesis 41:25 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Hebrews 11:13-16 ESV / 10 helpful votes
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
John 10:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Matthew 22:30 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Matthew 16:21 ESV / 10 helpful votes
From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.
Daniel 12:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Isaiah 41:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified.
Proverbs 6:6-8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.
Psalm 118:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Matthew 25:4-6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’
Lamentations 3:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes
They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. 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. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
1 John 2:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
James 1:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Colossians 1:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Philippians 3:12-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 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.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 8 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.