'Former' in the Bible

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

that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

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

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance: