'Already' in the Bible
which God had already promised through His Prophets in Holy Writ, concerning His Son,
And I desire you to know, brethren, that I have many a time intended to come to you--though until now I have been disappointed--in order that among you also I might gather some fruit from my labours, as I have already done among the rest of the Gentile nations.
I am already under obligations alike to Greek-speaking races and to others, to cultured and to uncultured people:
What then? Are we Jews more highly estimated than they? Not in the least; for we have already charged all Jews and Gentiles alike with being in thraldom to sin.
For already, while we were still helpless, Christ at the right moment died for the ungodly.
For prior to the Law sin was already in the world; only it is not entered in the account against us when no Law exists.
But he who has misgivings and yet eats meat is condemned already, because his conduct is not based on faith; for all conduct not based on faith is sinful.
But as to you, brethren, I am convinced-- yes, I Paul am convinced--that, even apart from my teaching, you are already full of goodness of heart, and enriched with complete Christian knowledge, and are also competent to instruct one another.
But I write to you the more boldly--partly as reminding you of what you already know--because of the authority graciously entrusted to me by God,
making it my ambition, however, not to tell the Good News where Christ's name was already known, for fear I should be building on another man's foundation.