The former treatise, O Theophilus, I made concerning all that Jesus undertook both to do and to teach;

Till another king arose, who knew not Joseph. This king formed crafty schemes against our nation,

And many of them that believed came confessing and declaring their former practices.

And when it was day, some of the Jews, having formed a conspiracy, bound themselves with a curse, saying, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

Nay but, O man, who art thou, that disputest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?

Now to Him that is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, (conformable to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret in former times,

till Christ be formed in you, I should be glad to be present with you even now, and to change my voice; for I am in doubt about you.

which according to your former conversation was corrupted with deceitful lusts,

the former preach Christ out of contention, not sincerely, thinking to add affliction to my bonds;

even that mystery which was hid from former ages and generations, but is now manifested to his saints:

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which after being enlightened, ye sustained a great conflict of sufferings;

Wait patiently therefore, my brethren, till the coming of the Lord: behold the husbandman expecteth the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it, till he receive the former and the latter rain.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance:

But he, that hath not these, is blind, or short-sighted, having forgot his baptismal purification from his former sins.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the former heaven and the former earth passed away, and there was no more sea.

And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there shall be death no more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain: for the former things are passed away.