but you knew I preached the gospel to you on my former [visit] in weakness of the flesh,

O my dear children, I am suffering a mother's birth pangs for you again, until Christ is formed in you.

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 was not disclosed to the sons of men in former generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets,

according to the purpose from everlasting, which he formed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.

to lay aside, with your former way of living, your old self which is on the way to destruction in accordance with its deceptive impulses;

and to be renewed in your mind, by living like men formed anew,

but the former preach Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely, because they think they are adding bitterness to my bonds.

the former are preaching Christ from the motive of rivalry, not in sincerity, supposing that this is making it harder for me to bear my imprisonment.

But for the sake of Christ I have come to count my former gains as loss.

the open secret, covered up from the people of former ages and generations, but now uncovered to God's people,

let there be no fraud among you, since you have discarded your former habits and practices, and are become new men,

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

[thus] incurring condemnation because they have broken their former pledge.

But in a great house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and stone, the former truly indeed unto honor, but the latter unto dishonor.

God, having spoken in former times in fragmentary and varied fashion to our forefathers by the prophets,

Indeed, because it was weak and ineffective, the former commandment has been annulled,

The [former successive line of] priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were each prevented by death from continuing [perpetually in office];

who does not {need every day} like the former high priests to offer up sacrifices for his own sins [and] then for the [sins] of the people, because he did this once for all [when he] offered up himself.

But, as it is, the priestly service to which Christ has been appointed is as much better than the old as the agreement established by him and the promises on which it is based are superior to the former ones.

In calling [it] new, he has declared the former [to be old]. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old [is] near to disappearing.

By this the Holy Spirit signifies that the way into the Holy Place [the true Holy of Holies and the presence of God] has not yet been disclosed as long as the first or outer tabernacle is still standing [that is, as long as the Levitical system of worship remains a recognized institution],

And for this reason, he is the mediator of the new covenant: that, since his death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions that were under the former covenant, those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will.” [And so] He does away with the first [covenant as a means of atoning for sin based on animal sacrifices] so that He may inaugurate and establish the second [covenant by means of obedience].

But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

By faith we understand that the worlds were exactly formed by the word of God, so that the visible objects were not made out of things which now appear.

By faith Moses, after being born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child well-formed, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

Now this word yet once more manifests the removal of the things shaken, as of things formed, that the things not shaken may endure.

Do not forget your former leaders, the men who brought you God's message. Remember how they ended their lives and imitate their faith.

Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. And sin, when it is fully formed, brings forth death.

Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, in patient expectation for it, till it receives the former and the latter rain.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as 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;

But he that hath no possession of these things, is blind, dim-sighted, sinking into oblivion of his purification from the sins of his former days.

For if after men have escaped the corrupting influences of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are overcome by them, their final condition is worse than their former one.

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;

whence the former world was destroyed by an inundation.

and formed us into a kingdom [as His subjects], priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the power and the majesty and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

After these [things] I looked, and behold, an open door in heaven, and the former voice that I had heard like a trumpet speaking with me was saying, "Come up here and I will show you [the things] which must take place after these [things]."

And hast formed them into a Kingdom to be priests to our God, And they reign over the earth."

He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence [when the two are together]. And he makes the earth and those who inhabit it worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

Then I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mixed with fire; and, standing by this sea of glass, holding the harps of God, I saw those who had come victorious out of the conflict with the Beast and its image and the number that formed its name.

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 shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more; nor shall mourning, nor crying, nor toil be any more: because the former things are passed away.