'Former' in the Bible

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

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.