'Old' in the Bible

Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent and slew all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi.

But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results.

Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”

And Jesus said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of his treasure things new and old.”

“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.

No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”

Immediately the girl got up and began to walk, for she was twelve years old. And immediately they were completely astounded.

But others were saying, “He is Elijah.” And others were saying, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.”

Zacharias said to the angel, “How will I know this for certain? For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years.”

And behold, even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month.

As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from of old—

And He was also telling them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old garment; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined.

And no one, after drinking old wine wishes for new; for he says, ‘The old is good enough.’”

for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. But as He went, the crowds were pressing against Him.

and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the prophets of old had risen again.

They answered and said, “John the Baptist, and others say Elijah; but others, that one of the prophets of old has risen again.”

Nicodemus *said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?”

So the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”

Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird you, and bring you where you do not wish to go.”

‘And it shall be in the last days,’ God says,‘That I will pour forth of My Spirit on all mankind;And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,And your young men shall see visions,And your old men shall dream dreams;

for the man was more than forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.

Says the Lord, who makes these things known from long ago.

Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;

knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,

Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices,

But have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women. On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness;

A widow is to be put on the list only if she is not less than sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

They will perish, but You remain;And they all will become old like a garment,

When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

For by it the men of old gained approval.

Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.

And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;