Bible Verses About Nostalgia

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.

I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself.

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

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,

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.