"And behold your kinswoman, Elizabeth, she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this was the sixth month with her that was called barren.

that secret truth, which, although hidden from ages and generations of old, has now been made manifest to his saints.

Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, nay, and old commandment, which you have had from the beginning. That old commandment is the message to which you have listened.

No one ever sews a piece of unshrunk cloth onto an old garment, otherwise the patch tears away from it??he new from the old??nd a worse tear is made.

He also told them a parable. "No one," he said, "tears a piece from a new garment, and patches it upon an old one; otherwise he will tear the new garment, and the patch from the new will not mend the old.

"And no man after drinking old wine, wishes for new; for he says, "The old is better.""

far above all hierarchies and authorities and powers and dominions and every name that is named, not only in this age but in that which is to come.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age in accordance with the will of our God and Father,

and how in my zeal for Judaism I outstripped many of my own age and nation, in my special zeal for the traditions of my forefathers.

It is not to angels that God subjected the age to be, of which we are speaking.

and become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the Future Age,

And schooling us to renounce impiety and evil passions, And to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed, although she was past the age for child-bearing, because she counted Him faithful who had promised;