And what more shall I say? For time (chronos | χρόνος | nom sg masc) would fail me if I told about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, about both David and Samuel and the prophets,
For though by this time (chronon | χρόνον | acc sg masc) you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of God’s revelation. You have become people needing milk, not solid food;
God again ordains a certain day — “today” — saying through David, after so long a time (chronon | χρόνον | acc sg masc), just as it has been said before, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time (chronōn | χρόνων | gen pl masc) eternal,
A wife is bound for such a time (chronon | χρόνον | acc sg masc) as her husband is alive. But if her husband should die, she is free to marry whom she wishes, only in the Lord.