Sometime means “at a certain time ... in the past; once.”
Sometimes means “... in former times, formerly.”
Col 1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
1Pe 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Eph 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Tit 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
The words “sometime” and “sometimes”, which are near synonymous, both are not used in the King James Bible to mean (merely) “occasionally”. (Looking at Colossians 1:21, it is evident that the “sometime” state does exhibit specific fruits, that is, what might be called “occasions”, that is, “wicked works”. The teaching is that all men were concluded by God in unbelief, and all were of Adam’s sin, therefore all produced various particular sinful works. Christ’s salvation had to deal with the very root of the problem, the wicked heart, not just the fruits of sin.)
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