225 verses contain “Form” (in the KJV: 125, in the BSB: 155) — showing 201–225
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As
obedient children, not fashioning
yourselves according to the
former lusts in your ignorance:
As
obedient children, do not
conform to the passions of your
former ignorance.
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
But they
deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was
formed out of water and by water,
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.
‘He will
wipe away every
tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or
mourning or crying or pain, for the
former things have passed away.”
As for the things that came to pass in his time, they were written in
former times, concerning those that
sinned, and did wickedly against the Lord above all people and kingdoms, and how they
grieved him exceedingly, so that the words of the Lord rose up against Israel.
Also of the priests and Levites, and of the chief of their families, the ancients who had seen the
former house came to the building of this with
weeping and great crying.
And then was the spirit, and darkness and silence were on every side; the sound of man’s voice was not yet formed.
And the world shall be turned into the old silence seven days, like as in the former judgments: so that no man shall remain.
Even so perisheth man also, which is
formed with thy hands, and is called thine own image, because thou art like unto him, for whose sake thou hast made all things, and
likened him unto the
husbandman’s seed.
She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall,
For thy
Almighty hand, that made the world of matter without
form, wanted not means to send among them a multitude of bears or fierce lions,
And taking the very refuse among those which served to no use, being a
crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, hath carved it
diligently, when he had nothing else to do, and
formed it by the skill of his understanding, and fashioned it to the image of a man;
The sight
whereof enticeth fools to
lust after it, and so they desire the
form of a dead image, that hath no breath.
And punishments came upon the sinners not without
former signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness,
insomuch as they used a more hard and
hateful behaviour toward strangers.
My son, hast thou
sinned? do so no more, but ask
pardon for thy
former sins.
Then they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar according to the former;
And all the
overplus, which the officers payed not in as in
former time, from henceforth shall be given toward the works of the temple.
So they went unto Rome, and entered into the senate, and said,
Jonathan the high priest, and the people of the Jews, sent us unto you, to the end ye should renew the friendship, which ye had with them, and league, as in
former time.
For this cause we chose Numenius the son of
Antiochus, and
Antipater he son of
Jason, and sent them unto the Romans, to renew the
amity that we had with them, and the
former league.
But he answered in his own language, and said, No. Wherefore he also received the next
torment in order, as the
former did.
I cannot tell how ye came into my
womb: for I neither gave you breath nor life, neither was it I that
formed the members of every one of you;
But doubtless the
Creator of the world, who
formed the generation of man, and found out the beginning of all things, will also of his own mercy give you breath and life again, as ye now regard not your own
selves for his laws’ sake.
But for all this his pains would not cease: for the just judgment of God was come upon him: therefore
despairing of his health, he wrote unto the Jews the letter underwritten, containing the
form of a
supplication, after this manner:
For in the
former times, when they mingled not themselves with the Gentiles, he had been accused of
Judaism, and did boldly
jeopard his body and life with all
vehemency for the religion of the Jews.
Wherefore he
exhorted his people not to fear the coming of the heathen against them, but to remember the help which in
former times they had received from heaven, and now to expect the victory and aid, which should come unto them from the
Almighty.