Old

“How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”

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

But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”

That was why his parents said, “He is old enough. Ask him.”

Truly, truly, I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.”

‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.

When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.

We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

…to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,

A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, faithful to her husband,

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