'Already' in the Bible
The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree that isn't producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
But I say to you, anyone who stares at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
When evening had come, the disciples went to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and it's already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves."
Then Jesus called his disciples and said, "I have compassion for the crowd because they have already been with me for three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away without food, or they may faint on the road."
But I tell you that Elijah has already come, yet people did not recognize him and treated him just as they pleased. In the same way, the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands."
He told them, "You will indeed drink from my cup. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right hand or at my left. These positions have already been prepared for others by my Father."
When it was quite late, his disciples came to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and it's already late.
"I have compassion for the crowd, because they've already been with me for three days and have nothing to eat.
Jesus told them, "You will drink from the cup that I'm going to drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right or my left. Those positions have already been prepared for others."
Then Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the Temple and looked around at everything. Since it was already late, he went out with the Twelve to Bethany.
It was the Day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath. Since it was already evening,
Pilate was amazed to hear that Jesus had already died, so he summoned the centurion to ask him if he was in fact dead.
The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into a fire."
Suppose he answers from inside, "Stop bothering me! The door is already locked, and my children are here with us in the bedroom. I can't get up and give you anything!'
"I've come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already ablaze!
As soon as they produce leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is already near.
It was already about noon, and the whole land became dark until three in the afternoon
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God's unique Son.
The one who harvests is already receiving his wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who harvests may rejoice together.
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already fallen, and Jesus had not yet come to them.
His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, since the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.
He answered them, "I've already told you, but you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his disciples, too, do you?"
When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.
By supper time, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray him.
You are already clean because of what I've spoken to you.
Listen, the time is coming, indeed it has already come, when you will be scattered, each of you to his own home, and you will leave me all by myself. Yet I'm not alone, because the Father is with me.
But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
So they arrested them and placed them in custody until the next day, since it was already evening.
Before Jesus' appearance, John had already preached a baptism of repentance to all the people in Israel.
Much time had been lost, and because navigation had become dangerous and the day of fasting had already past, Paul began to warn those on the ship,
What, then, does this mean? Are we Jews any better off? Not at all! For we have already accused everyone, both Jews and Greeks, of being under the power of sin.
His faith did not weaken when he thought about his own body (which was already as good as dead now that he was about a hundred years old) or about Sarah's inability to have children,
This is necessary because you know the times it's already time for you to wake up from sleep, because our salvation is nearer now than when we became believers.
After all, no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is already laid, and that is Jesus the Messiah.
You already have all you want! You have already become rich! You have become kings without us! I wish you really were kings so that we could be kings with you!
Even though I am away from you physically, I am with you in spirit. I have already passed judgment on the man who did this, as though I were present with you.
The very fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves is already a defeat for you. Why not rather just accept the wrong? Why not rather be cheated?
just as you have already understood us partially, so that on the Day of our Lord Jesus we can be your reason to boast, even as you are ours.
I am giving you my opinion on this matter because it will be helpful to you. Last year you were not only willing to do something, but had already started to do it.
Then we can preach the gospel in the regions far beyond you without boasting about things already accomplished by someone else.
I have already warned those who sinned previously and all the rest. Although I am absent now, I am warning them as I did on my second visit: If I come back, I will not spare you,
so that we who had already fixed our hope on the Messiah might live for his praise and glory.
It's not that I have already reached this goal or have already become perfect. But I keep pursuing it, hoping somehow to embrace it just as I have been embraced by the Messiah Jesus.
Furthermore, you must never take advantage of or exploit a brother in this regard, because the Lord avenges all these things, just as we already told you and warned you.
not to be so quickly upset or alarmed when someone claims that we said, either by some spirit, conversation, or letter that the Day of the Lord has already come.
For the secret of this lawlessness is already at work, but only until the person now holding it back gets out of the way.
For some widows have already turned away to follow Satan.
They have abandoned the truth by claiming that the resurrection has already taken place, and so they destroy the faith of others.
I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for my departure has come.
he again fixes a definite day "Today" - saying long afterward through David, as already quoted, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."
Therefore, I intend to keep on reminding you about these things, even though you already know them and are firmly established in the truth that you now have.
And so, dear friends, since you already know these things, continuously be on your guard not to be carried away by the deception of lawless people. Otherwise, you may fall from your secure position.
On the other hand, I am writing to you a new commandment that is truly in him and in you. For the darkness is fading away, and the true light is already shining.
But every spirit who does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist. You have heard that he is coming, and now he is already in the world.