'Formerly' in the Bible

His neighbors and those who formerly had seen him as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the man who sat begging?”

they simply kept hearing: “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith he once tried to destroy.”

one who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief.

Since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter because of disobedience,