Then a cloud formed, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is My beloved Son, listen to Him!”

While he was saying this, a cloud formed and began to overshadow them; and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.

But the Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some wicked men from the market place, formed a mob and set the city in an uproar; and attacking the house of Jason, they were seeking to bring them out to the people.

Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.

And there he spent three months, and when a plot was formed against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

There were more than forty who formed this plot.

For you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it;

My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you—

that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,

the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition rather than from pure motives, thinking to cause me distress in my imprisonment.

For, on the one hand, there is a setting aside of a former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing,

But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings,

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands;

For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.

For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,