Putting the Past Behind

Brothers, 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 of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

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

“Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old.

Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

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

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

…to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; …

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.