56 occurrences

'Old' in the Bible

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Beth-lehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsCrimesFaithlessness, As DisobedienceBoysBitterness, Examples OfInnocence, Examples OfShrewdnessSuffering, Nature OfBethlehemInfanticideDeath Of All MalesBeing Found OutWhen?Named Gentile RulersThose Who DeceivedAngry PeopleKilling IsraelitesMassacresThe Death Of BabiesExamples Of Ungodly MenJesus BirthDeath Of A Child

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:

Verse ConceptsLaw, Ten CommandmentsMurderChrist's Knowledge Of The ScripturesGod Speaking Of OldDo Not Murder

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:

Verse ConceptsMaking VowsFalse WaysGod Speaking Of Oldgrandmas

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.

Verse ConceptsClothNewnessParables Of ChristSchismsSewingOld ThingsRepairingUnusedWorse

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.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholBottles, Figurative UseNewnessWineParables Of ChristAlcohol ConsumptionPutting Off The Old ManBreaking ContainersOld ThingsUnusedFreshPeople KeepingWineskins And Vatstoughness

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.

Verse ConceptsHousesKeysTeachers Of The LawChristian TraditionsPeople Of The KingdomtrainingNew

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.

Verse ConceptsNewnessSewingBad SituationsRepairingUnused

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.

Verse ConceptsBottle, UsesNewnessWineAlcohol ConsumptionBreaking ContainersOld ThingsUnusedFreshWineskins And Vatstoughness

And the young girl got up straight away, and was walking about; she being twelve years old. And they were overcome with wonder.

Verse ConceptsAmazement, Of Christ's MiraclesAstonishmentThe Healed WalkingPeople Getting Up

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:

Verse ConceptsAblutionelders, as community leadersJews, TheCharacteristics Of PhariseesHow People EatThe Elderlypharisees

And they were without children, because Elisabeth had never given birth, and they were at that time very old.

Verse ConceptsBarrenness, Examples OfChildren, responsibilities to parentsChildlessnessInfertilityHaving A Babyluck

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.

Verse ConceptsOld Age, DisabilitiesdoubtersAssurance in the life of faithMiracles, Responses ToOld Age, Attainment OfSure Knowledgegabriel

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.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesJohn The BaptistOld Age, Attainment OfChildlessnessMonth 6Relatives

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

Verse ConceptsProphetessSeven YearsAgeWaiting Till Marriagemumsmarraigematrimonyvirginity

And when he was twelve years old, they went up, as their way was, to the feast;

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveTraditions

And Jesus at this time was about thirty years old, being the son (as it seemed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

Verse ConceptsBeginningNoahThirtySonsChrist, Names ForBeginning To TeachAgemanhoodevangelising

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.

Verse ConceptsNewnessMendingRepairingUnusedNot Like Things

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.

Verse ConceptsBreaking ContainersOld ThingsFreshWineskins And Vats

And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.

Verse ConceptsOld ThingsDrunkennessNew

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.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsCrowds Around JesusThe Only ChildPressingNearness Of DeathOnly Child Of PeopleDeath Looms Near

And by some, that Elijah had come; and by others, that one of the old prophets had come back to life.

Verse ConceptsJesus The Prophet

And they, answering, said, John the Baptist; but others say Elijah; and others, that one of the old prophets has come back.

Verse ConceptsJesus The ProphetWho He Might Be

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?

Verse ConceptsConfusionLack Of InsightWombGod Is TruthfulDullnessMisunderstood TruthLimitations Of Old PeopleBirth Not Being PossibleImpossible For PeoplemomsJesus BirthStress And Hard Timesrebirth

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.

Verse ConceptsAskingNot Knowing How

That was the reason why they said, He is old enough; put the question to him.

Verse ConceptsAskingAgeMaturityparenthood

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.

Verse ConceptsAffirmationsStretching OutFreshness Of YouthClothing OneselfClothing OthersChrist Telling The TruthPeople Unwilling

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:

Verse ConceptsdaughtersProphecy, In NtSonsPouringVisionsEnd Of The AgesHope For Old PeopleVisions From GodProphesying In The Churchend times prophecyEnd Of Days

For the man on whom this act of power was done was more than forty years old.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, New Testament ReferencesHealth And Healing

But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsVisiting

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.

Verse ConceptsCustomPersecution, Forms OfUncircumcisionApostasy, Types OfMisteachingNecessity Of CircumcisionThe Gospel To Jew And Gentileapostasy

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:

Verse ConceptsBodyWeakness, SpiritualThe Age At FatherhoodWombLimitations Of The BodyGrace Verse LawWeaknesschildbearing

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.

Verse ConceptsPaul, Teaching OfRitualService To GodChristian Liberty Is Freedom FromNew Birth, Described AsThe Holy Spirit, And RegenerationThe Holy Spirit, And ScriptureNew LifeOld ThingsDead To SinWithout The Law

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.

Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeception, Christians Must Not PracticeHonestySpiteSincereityLeavenedGod's Truthnot celebrating christmasthe anniversary FeastsSexual Puritycelebrating

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,

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsWidows, Should BeMarriage ControlledSecond MarriageWomen's RolesBeing Single

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:

Verse ConceptsAgape LoveLove Fellow Christians!Christians Are Called Prisoners Of Christ

They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;

Verse ConceptsCreation Showing God's NatureChange And Growth

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.

Verse ConceptsLaws, AbolishedPast, TheOld ThingsGrowingcovenant

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.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionLast DaysPriesthood, In NtEnd Of The AgesOnceChrist AppearingFrom The BeginningOnly OnceDoing RepeatedlyChrist AtoningRight SacrificesAppointments

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.

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstThe Lord's PrayerHumility Of ChristDoing God's Will

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.

Verse ConceptsBacksliding, CausesLackPast, TheDefective VisionForgetting ThingsBeing Cleansed From SinThe Pastcleansingpastpeter

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;

Verse ConceptsForgettingEarth, Creation OfDelusionsWilful IgnoranceCreation Of The SkyCreation Of The EarthThe Effect Of The Word Of GodIgnorance of GodGod's CreationFloodsignoranceEarth Being Fixed And Immovable

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.

Verse ConceptsBeginningBeginning Of SalvationOld ThingsChrist's Ordersa new beginningcommandments

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Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain