'Former Time' in the Bible
"Brothers, that Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit uttered by the mouth of David in the former times about Judas who became the guide to those who arrested Jesus;
whom, in his blood, through faith, God hath set forth as a propitiatory sacrifice, in order to manifest his righteousness, on account of his passing by, in his forbearance, the sins committed in former times;
For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.
Now to Him that is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, (conformable to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret in former times,
But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.
But at that former time, as you did not know the true God, you were slaves to gods that do not really exist,
Nay, ye know that it was on account of an infirmity of the flesh that I preached the gospel to you the former time,
God, having spoken in former times in fragmentary and varied fashion to our forefathers by the prophets,
Call to remembrance the former times, in which after ye were illuminated, you were forc'd to struggle with sufferings,
For after this manner in former times the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: