'Advance' in the Bible

the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;

But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,

but they shall not advance any further, for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also did become.

and evil men and impostors shall advance to the worse, leading astray and being led astray.

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,