Bible Verses About Forgetting the Past
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for forgetting the past, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 12,343 votes, led by Philippians 3:13. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Forgetting the Past
Philippians 3:131,075 votes
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,
Isaiah 43:18-191,065 votes
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
Philippians 3:13-14964 votes
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,
2 Corinthians 5:17860 votes
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Ephesians 4:31-32637 votes
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Isaiah 43:25470 votes
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
1 John 1:9438 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Matthew 6:25-34422 votes
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Romans 8:1330 votes
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Galatians 2:20304 votes
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10235 votes
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7223 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Hebrews 12:1-2206 votes
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Luke 9:62205 votes
And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Romans 12:1-2201 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Isaiah 43:18182 votes
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
Hebrews 10:17143 votes
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Philippians 4:11138 votes
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
1 Peter 2:1-25127 votes
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Hebrews 8:12104 votes
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Philippians 3:12101 votes
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:899 votes
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
Romans 6:498 votes
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Hebrews 11:189 votes
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
John 5:2486 votes
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
What does the Bible say about forgetting the past?
Readers most often cite Philippians 3:13 on the subject of forgetting the past. Across 12,343 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Isaiah 43:18-19, Philippians 3:13-14, 2 Corinthians 5:17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.