There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.

I have been beaten three times by the Romans, I have been stoned once, I have been shipwrecked three times, a night and a day I have been adrift at sea;

For just as Jonah was in the maw of the whale for three days and nights, the Son of Man will be three days and nights in the heart of the earth.

For from now on if there are five people in a house they will be divided three against two and two against three.

Cornelius answered, "Three days ago, just at this time of day, I was praying in my house about three o'clock, when a man in dazzling clothing stood before me,

Three times I have prayed to the Lord about this, begging that it might leave me,

So faith, hope, and love endure. These are the great three, and the greatest of them is love.

If there is any ecstatic speaking, let it be limited to two or three people at the most, and have one speak at a time and someone explain what he says.

And let two or three who are inspired to preach speak, while the rest weigh what is said;

Anyone who breaks the Law of Moses is put to death without any show of pity, on the evidence of only two or three witnesses.

Faith led Moses' parents to hide him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child and they would not respect the edict of the king.

For there are three that testify to it,

the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three are at one.

Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land.

For three days and a half, men of all peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will look at their bodies, and will not let them be buried.

After three days and a half, the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror seized those who saw them.

Then I saw three foul spirits like frogs emerge from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the animal and from the mouth of the false prophet.

The great city broke into three pieces, the cities of the heathen fell, and God remembered to give mighty Babylon the cup of the wine of his fierce anger.

and I heard a voice which seemed to come from the midst of the four animals say, "Wheat at a dollar a quart, and barley three quarts for a dollar, but you must not injure the oil and wine!"

Then in my vision I heard an eagle flying in midair say in a loud voice, "Alas! Alas! Alas for the inhabitants of the earth, because of the other blasts of the three angels who are going to blow their trumpets!"

One third of mankind were killed by these three plagues??he fire, smoke, and sulphur that poured from their mouths.