15 Bible Verses about Acting Three Times

As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,

The donkey saw me and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, surely just now I would have killed you and let her live."

Then the LORDopened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?"

And the angel of the LORD said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you because your way is perverse before me.

And he said, "Take the arrows," and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground with them." And he struck three times and stopped.

Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea;

Then the man of God was angry with him and said, "You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Syria only three times."

Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.

And as soon as the boy had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap and fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed one another and wept with one another, David weeping the most.

Then he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried to the LORD, "O LORD my God, let this child's life come into him again."

And he said, "Do it a second time." And they did it a second time. And he said, "Do it a third time." And they did it a third time.

And he came the third time and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.