aei marks actions, dispositions, or conditions as ongoing or customary without interruption.

The attested verses use the adverb to mark an action, disposition, or condition as continuing or characteristic: readiness to answer, repeated delivery to death, rejoicing amid grief, reminders, resistance, straying, and the description of liars.

1. Continuing or habitual action and condition · dominant

   In 1 Peter 3:15 the adverb qualifies readiness to give a defense, while in 2 Peter 1:12 it qualifies the writer's intended reminders. It also marks continuing conditions or conduct: the APB renders believers as being delivered to death and rejoicing in 2 Corinthians 4:11 and 2 Corinthians 6:10, and renders resistance, straying, and lying as recurrent behavior in Acts 7:51, Hebrews 3:10, and Titus 1:12.

   1 Peter 3:152 Corinthians 4:112 Corinthians 6:102 Peter 1:12Acts 7:51Hebrews 3:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB regularly presents the adverb with "always," including readiness, delivery to death, rejoicing, reminders, resistance, straying, and lying. These renderings confirm the clauses' continuing or habitual force rather than isolate an English equivalent in every case.