And he said to them, "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against his former wife,

This offended the Jews and they gathered some unprincipled loafers, formed a mob and started a riot in the town. They attacked Jason's house, to find them and bring them out among the people.

Many who became believers would come and openly confess their former practices.

For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)??26 to vindicate his justice at the present time, and show that he is upright himself, and that he makes those who have faith in Jesus upright also.

You have heard of my former conduct when I was attached to the Jewish religion??ow furiously I used to persecute the church of God and ravage it,

my children??ou for whom I am enduring a mother's pains again, until Christ is formed in you.

You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.

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

For Adam was formed first, and then Eve;

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.

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

For whoever lacks these qualities is blind or near-sighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his former sins.

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 they wilfully ignore the fact that long ago there existed heavens and an earth which had been formed at God's command out of water and by water,