So remember that at one time (pote | ποτέ | adverb) you Gentiles in the flesh, called the uncircumcision by those called the circumcision — made in the flesh by hands —

Among them we also once (pote | ποτε | adverb) lived in the passions of our flesh, gratifying the desires and impulses of the flesh, and were by nature children of wrath, just like everyone else.

in which you once (pote | ποτε | adverb) lived according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the realm of the air, of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience.

But from those who were supposed to be acknowledged leaders (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality) — those leaders contributed nothing to me.

They only kept hearing, “The one who formerly (pote | ποτε | adverb) persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once (pote | ποτε | adverb) tried to destroy.”

For you have heard of my former (pote | ποτε | adverb) way of life in Judaism, how intensely I used to persecute the church of God and was trying to destroy it.

Who serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?

just as you were at one time (pote | ποτε | adverb) disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,

I was once (pote | ποτέ | adverb) alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came to life

always in my prayers, asking if perhaps now at last (pote | ποτέ | adverb) I may be able, by the will of God, to visit you.