G4386–πρότερον–proteron

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

πρότερον proteron “formerly”

Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

πρότερον proteron “formerly”

Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

πρότερον proteron “first”

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

πρότερον proteron “former”

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

πρότερον proteron “former”