'Beforehand' in the Bible
having marked us out beforehand for adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
in whom we have also obtained an inheritance, being marked out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his own will,
[that] we who hoped beforehand in Christ should be for the praise of his glory,
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
According to revelation the mystery was made known to me, just as I wrote beforehand in brief,