hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be compleat.

Then Paul directing himself to the council, thus said, "hitherto I have liv'd strictly conscientious, as God knows."

now I would not have you ignorant, my brethren, that I often purposed to come to you, tho' I have been hindered hitherto, that I might be useful among you as well as among other Gentiles.

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, nor have you yet sufficient strength.

for do I now act in obedience to men, or to God? or do I seek to please men? if I had hitherto pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.

wherefore comfort and edify one another, as you have hitherto done.