'Having' in the Bible

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now going to reach perfection through what is external?

He who gives you His Spirit and works miracles among you--does He do so on the ground of your obedience to the Law, or is it the result of your having heard and believed:

But at one time, you Gentiles, having no knowledge of God, were slaves to gods which in reality do not exist.

Now, however, having come to know God--or rather to be known by Him--how is it you are again turning back to weak and worthless rudimentary notions to which you are once more willing to be enslaved?

Christ having made us gloriously free--stand fast and do not again be hampered with the yoke of slavery.