'Already' in the Bible

Already now the ax is positioned at the root of the trees; therefore every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

But the boat was already many stadia distant from the land, being beaten by the waves, because the wind was against [it].

And Jesus summoned his disciples [and] said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have remained with me three days already and do not have anything to eat, and I do not want to send them away hungry lest they give out on the way."

But I say to you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did with him whatever they wanted. In the [same] way also the Son of Man is going to suffer [at] their hands."

"Now learn the parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer [is] near.

And a great storm of wind developed, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already being filled [with water].

And the hour had already become late [when] his disciples came up to him, saying, "The place is desolate and the hour [is] already late.

"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have remained with me three days already and do not have anything to eat.

And he went into Jerusalem to the temple, and [after] looking around at everything, [because] the hour was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

"Now learn the parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.

And [when it] was already evening, since it was the day of preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath),

And Pilate was surprised that he was already dead, and summoning the centurion, asked him whether he had died already.

And that one will answer from inside [and] say, 'Do not cause me trouble! The door has already been shut and my children are with me in bed! I am not able to get up to give you [anything].'

"I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish that it had been kindled already!

The one who believes in him is not judged, but the one who does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

Do you not say, 'There are yet four months and the harvest comes'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

Jesus, [when he] saw this one lying [there] and knew that he had [been sick] a long time already, said to him, "Do you want to become well?"

And getting into a boat, they began to go to the other side of the sea, to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

{Now when the feast was already half over}, Jesus went to the temple [courts] and began to teach.

(His parents said these [things] because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already decided that if anyone should confess him [to be] Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.

He replied to them, "I told you already and you did not listen! Why do you want to hear [it] again? You do not want to become his disciples also, [do you]?"

So [when he] arrived, Jesus found he had already [been] four days in the tomb.

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, "Lord, he is stinking already, because it has been four days."

And [as] a dinner was taking place, [when] the devil had already put into the heart of Judas [son] of Simon Iscariot that he should betray him,

You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

But [when they] came to Jesus, after they saw he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

Now [when it] was already early morning, Jesus stood on the beach. However, the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

And they laid hands on them and put [them] in custody until the next day, because it was already evening.

And [because] considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because even the Fast was already over, Paul strongly recommended,

What then? Do we have an advantage? Not at all. For we have already charged both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,

And [do] this [because you] know the time, that [it is] already the hour for you to wake up from sleep. For our salvation [is] nearer now than when we believed.

Already you are satiated! Already you are rich! Apart from us you reign as kings! And would that indeed you reigned as kings, in order that we also might reign as kings with you!

For [although I] am absent in body but present in spirit, I have already passed judgment on the one who has done this in this way, as [if I] were present.

Therefore it is already completely a loss for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

I do not say [this] {to condemn you}, because I have already said that you are in our hearts, so that we die together and we live together.

I have already said when was present the second time, and [although I] am absent now also say in advance to those who sinned previously and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare [anyone],

Not that I have already received [this], or [have] already been made perfect, but I press on if indeed I may lay hold of [that] for which also I was laid hold of by Christ.

but [after we] had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, just as you know, we had the courage in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much opposition.

For the mystery of lawlessness is at work already; only the one who now restrains [will do so] until he is out of the way,

For already some have turned away [and followed] after Satan.

who have deviated concerning the truth [by] saying the resurrection has already taken place, and they are upsetting the faith of some.

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is imminent.

Dear friends, this [is] already the second letter I am writing to you, in [both of] which I am attempting to stir up your sincere mind by a reminder,

Again, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light already is shining.

and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God, and this is the [spirit] of the antichrist, [of] which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.