moving forward
What does the Bible say about moving forward? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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17So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.
18You need not call to mind the past, nor consider the things of antiquity.
5Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence. 6In all your ways, consider him, and he himself will direct your steps.
8I will give you understanding, and I will instruct you in this way, in which you will walk. I will fix my eyes upon you.
18You need not call to mind the past, nor consider the things of antiquity. 19Behold, I am accomplishing new things. And presently, they will spring forth. With certainty, you will know them. I will make a way in the desert, and rivers in an impassible place.
12It is not as though I have already received this, or were already perfect. But rather I pursue, so that by some means I might attain, that in which I have already been attained by Christ Jesus. 13Brothers, I do not consider that I have already attained this. Instead, I do one thing: forgetting those things that are behind, and extending myself toward those things that are ahead, 14I pursue the destination, the prize of the heavenly calling of God in Christ Jesus.
11For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.
6Jesus said to him: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
14And this is the confidence which we have toward God: that no matter what we shall request, in accord with his will, he hears us.
25Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids precede your steps.
8Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your stretcher, and walk.”
6“The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying: ‘You have remained long enough on this mountain.
9And the just will cling to his way, and clean hands will increase strength.
9If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.
15And the Lord said to Moses: “Why cry out to me? Tell the sons of Israel to continue on. 16Now, lift up your staff, and extend your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the sons of Israel may walk through the midst of the sea on dry ground.