'Once' in the Bible

who were once not a people, and are now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.

for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,

who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;