'Old' in the Bible
You have knowledge that it was said in old times, You may not put to death; and, Whoever puts to death will be in danger of being judged:
Again, you have knowledge that it was said in old times, Do not take false oaths, but give effect to your oaths to the Lord:
And no man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat, for by pulling away from the old, it makes a worse hole.
And men do not put new wine into old wine-skins; or the skins will be burst and the wine will come out, and the skins are of no more use: but they put new wine into new wine-skins, and so the two will be safe.
And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old.
No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.
And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins: or the skins will be burst by the wine, and the wine and the skins will be wasted: but new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.
And the young girl got up straight away, and was walking about; she being twelve years old. And they were overcome with wonder.
Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them:
And they were without children, because Elisabeth had never given birth, and they were at that time very old.
And Zacharias said to the angel, How may I be certain of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is far on in years.
Even now Elisabeth, who is of your family, is to be a mother, though she is old: and this is the sixth month with her who was without children.
And there was one, Anna, a woman prophet, the daughter of Phanuel, of the family of Asher (she was very old, and after seven years of married life
And when he was twelve years old, they went up, as their way was, to the feast;
And Jesus at this time was about thirty years old, being the son (as it seemed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.
And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins, for fear that the skins will be burst by the new wine, and the wine be let out, and the skins come to destruction.
And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.
For he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was near to death. But while he was on his way, the people were pushing to be near him.
And by some, that Elijah had come; and by others, that one of the old prophets had come back to life.
And they, answering, said, John the Baptist; but others say Elijah; and others, that one of the old prophets has come back.
Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.
Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again?
Then the Jews said to him, You are not fifty years old; have you seen Abraham?
But how it is he is now able to see, or who made his eyes open, we are not able to say: put the question to him; he is old enough to give an answer for himself.
That was the reason why they said, He is old enough; put the question to him.
Truly I say to you, When you were young, you made yourself ready and went wherever you had a desire to go: but when you are old, you will put out your hands and another will make you ready, and you will be taken where you have no desire to go.
And it will come about, in the last days, says God, that I will send out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams:
For the man on whom this act of power was done was more than forty years old.
But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.
And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules.
And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:
Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.
But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.
Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.
Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.
But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.
So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.
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;
Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,
Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,
That old men are to be simple in their tastes, serious, wise, true in faith, in love, and of a quiet mind.
That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good,
Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:
They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;
When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.
For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.
Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.
And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;
Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:
For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.
But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;
My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.
And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.
And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years,
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