12 Bible Verses about Nostalgia

Ecclesiastes 7:10 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

Isaiah 43:18-19 ESV / 26 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.

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Ecclesiastes 1:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes

There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.

Philippians 3:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes

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,

Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Romans 14:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

Luke 9:62 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Ecclesiastes 7:10-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this. Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun. For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it. Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked? 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.

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