and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves [completely according to ritual]; and there are many other things [oral, man-made laws and traditions handed down to them] which they follow diligently, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper utensils.)

Consider therefore. Moses gave you the rite of circumcision (not that it began with Moses, but with your earlier forefathers)

But this crowd, which does not know the law of Moses, [and especially its oral traditions], is cursed [by God]."

And he went away again on the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John was baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”

“Feed My lambs,” He told him.

I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,

John having earlier proclaimed, before his coming presence, the immersion of repentance to Israel.

For they had earlier seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him and assumed that Paul had taken him into the Temple.

And art taking note of his will, and testing the things that differ - when receiving oral instruction out of the law,

Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

Even as Isaiah says in an earlier place, "Were it not that the Lord, the God of Hosts, had left us some few descendants, we should have become like Sodom, and have come to resemble Gomorrah."

For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

As in all the churches of the saints, the women must keep silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak out, but must place themselves in submission, as the oral law also says.

And in this confidence I intended to come to you earlier, so that ye might have a second benefit,

for us to urge Titus that, as he earlier began this kindness, so he would even finish it for you also.

And in this I give judgment, for this is expedient for you who earlier began, from a year ago, not only the doing but also the intending.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers that they would go ahead to you, and arrange in advance your gift that was earlier announced, for this to be ready this way as a gift and not as an exaction.

I told you before, and tell you again, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them who earlier have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

You have heard of my career and former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to hunt down and persecute the church of God extensively and [with fanatical zeal] tried [my best] to destroy it.

O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was earlier described among you, crucified?

in which you formerly liv'd, influenc'd by the customs of this world, and by the prince of the aerial powers, the spirits that now actuate the incredulous:

which in earlier ages was not made known to the human race, as it has now been revealed to His holy Apostles and Prophets through the Spirit--

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

for our conflict is not barely with men, but with principalities, with potentates, with the princes of darkness, with wicked aereal spirits.

If by any means I may advance to the earlier resurrection, which is from among the dead:

But although we suffered earlier and were mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of much opposition.

In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him, because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases, as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly.

Timothy, my child, I am instructing you in keeping with the prophecies made earlier about you, so that by following them you may continue to fight the good fight

but to repeat the text cited earlier: "They will never enter my rest!"

On the one hand we have here the abrogation of an earlier code because it was weak and ineffective--

But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;

to remember the sayings that were earlier spoken by the holy prophets, and of the command of your apostles of the Lord and Savior.

I know your deeds: your love, faith, service, and steadfast endurance. In fact, your more recent deeds are greater than your earlier ones.

So, the [demonic] spirits assembled the kings together at the place which is called "Armageddon" in Hebrew. [Note: "Armageddon" means "mountain of Megiddo" and was a site in northwestern Palestine where several decisive battles had been fought centuries earlier. See Judges 4,5,7].