'Once' in the Bible
Once more the Devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, along with their splendor.
All at once some people brought him a paralyzed man lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he told the paralyzed man, "Be courageous, son! Your sins are forgiven."
Other seeds fell on stony ground, where they did not have a lot of soil. They sprouted at once because the soil wasn't deep.
As for what was sown on the stony ground, this is the person who hears the word and accepts it joyfully at once,
At once Jesus reached out his hand, caught him, and asked him, "You who have so little faith, why did you doubt?"
Then Jesus, deeply moved with compassion, touched their eyes, and at once they could see again. So they followed him.
told them, "Go into the village ahead of you. At once you will find a donkey tied up and a colt with it. Untie them, and bring them to me.
If anyone says anything to you, tell him, "The Lord needs them,' and that person will send them at once."
"The one who received five talents went out at once and invested them and earned five more.
I tell all of you I will never again drink the product of the vine until that day when I drink it with you once again in my Father's kingdom."
So one of the men ran off at once, took a sponge, and soaked it in some sour wine. Then he put it on a stick and offered Jesus a drink.
At once his fame began to spread throughout the surrounding region of Galilee.
Then Jesus sternly warned him and encouraged him to go at once.
At once, Jesus knew in his spirit what they were saying to themselves. "Why are you arguing about such things among yourselves?" he asked them.
Others fell on stony ground, where they didn't have a lot of soil. They sprouted at once, because the soil wasn't deep.
Others are like the seeds sown on the stony ground. When they hear the word, at once they joyfully accept it,
Her bleeding stopped at once, and she felt in her body that she was healed from her illness.
The young lady got up at once and started to walk. She was twelve years old. Instantly they were overcome with astonishment.
The man's hearing and speech were restored at once, and he began to talk normally.
With tears flowing, the child's father at once cried out, "I do believe! Help my unbelief!"
Once again, Jesus took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to him. "Pay attention! We're going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and the scribes, and they'll condemn him to death. Then they'll hand him over to the unbelievers,
Jesus told him, "Go. Your faith has made you well." At once the man could see again, and he began to follow Jesus down the road.
If anyone asks you, "Why are you doing this?,' say, "The Lord needs it,' and he will send it back here at once."
He bent over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began serving them.
Once, on another Sabbath, Jesus went into a synagogue and began teaching. A man whose right hand was paralyzed was there.
She came up behind Jesus and touched the tassel of his garment, and her bleeding stopped at once.
So her spirit returned, and she got up at once. Then Jesus directed that she be given something to eat.
Once Jesus was praying in a certain place. After he had finished, one of his disciples told him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."
"Once there was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and live in great luxury every day.
"Suppose a man among you has a servant plowing or watching sheep. Would he say to him when he comes in from the field, "Come at once and have something to eat'?
Once Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come. He answered them, "The kingdom of God is not coming with a visible display.
So they brought to the Pharisees the man who had once been blind.
Once again there was a division among the Jews because of what Jesus had been saying.
All at once something like scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again.
Peter told him, "Aeneas, Jesus the Messiah is healing you. Get up and put away your mat!" At once he got up,
Cornelius replied, "Four days ago at this very hour, three o'clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my home. All at once a man in radiant clothes stood in front of me
Once, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of fortune-telling and who had brought her owners a great deal of money by predicting the future.
The whole city was in chaos. The people rushed together, grabbed Paul, dragged him out of the Temple, and at once the doors were sealed shut.
and saw the Lord saying to me, "Hurry up and get out of Jerusalem at once, because the people won't accept your testimony about me.'
Since a plot against the man has been reported to me, I'm sending him to you at once, and I've also ordered his accusers to present their charges against him before you."
For when he died, he died once and for all as far as sin is concerned. But now that he is alive, he lives for God.
But thank God that, though you were once slaves of sin, you became obedient from your hearts to that form of teaching with which you were entrusted!
I am speaking in simple terms because of the frailty of your human nature. Just as you once offered the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater disobedience, so now, in the same way, you must offer the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness that leads to sanctification.
In fact, that which once had glory lost its glory, because the other glory surpassed it.
Once your obedience is complete, we will be ready to reprimand every type of disobedience.
Are they the Messiah's servants? I am insane to talk like this, but I am a far better one! I have been involved in far greater efforts, far more imprisonments, countless beatings, and have faced death more than once.
Three times I was beaten with a stick, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, and I drifted on the sea for a day and a night.
I am afraid that when I come my God may again humble me before you and that I may have to grieve over many who formerly lived in sin and have not repented of their impurity, sexual immorality, and promiscuity that they once practiced.
The only thing they kept hearing was this: "The man who used to persecute us is now proclaiming the faith he once tried to destroy!"
Brothers, let me use an example from everyday life. Once an agreement has been ratified, no one can cancel it or add conditions to it.
that you once practiced as you lived according to the ways of this present world and according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now active in those who are disobedient.
Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for wrath, just like everyone else.
But now, in union with the Messiah Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.
For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light,
Now I rejoice in the Lord greatly, because once again you have shown your concern for me. Of course, you were concerned for me but you did not have an opportunity to show it.
Even while I was in Thessalonica, you provided for my needs not once, but twice.
You who were once alienated with a hostile attitude, doing evil,
After all, we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures, spending our days in malice and jealousy. We were despised, and we hated one another.
Have nothing to do with a divisive person after you have warned him once or twice.
Once he was useless to you, but now he is very useful both to you and to me.
Therefore, since it is still true that some will enter it, and since those who once heard the good news failed to enter it because of their disobedience,
and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,
For it is impossible to keep on restoring to repentance time and again people who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have become partners with the Holy Spirit,
He has no need to offer sacrifices every day like high priests do, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he sacrificed himself.
But only the high priest went into the second part, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins committed by the people in ignorance.
Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he went into the Most Holy Place once for all and secured our eternal redemption.
Then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the creation of the world. But now, at the end of the ages, he has appeared once for all to remove sin by his sacrifice.
Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,
so the Messiah was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people. And he will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly wait for him.
Otherwise, would they not have stopped offering them, because the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer be aware of any sins?
By God's will we have been sanctified once and for all through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus, the Messiah.
At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Once more I will shake not only the earth but also heaven."
The expression "once more" signifies the removal of what can be shaken, that is, what he has made, so that what cannot be shaken may remain.
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
For the Messiah also suffered for sins once for all, an innocent person for the guilty, so that he could bring you to God. He was put to death in a mortal body but was brought to life by the Spirit,
Dear friends, although I was eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I found it necessary to write to you and urge you to continue your vigorous defense of the faith that was passed down to the saints once and for all.
Now I want to remind you, even though you are fully aware of these things, that the Lord who once saved his people from the land of Egypt later destroyed those who did not believe.
The beast that you saw existed once, but is no longer, and is going to crawl out of the bottomless pit and then proceed to its destruction. Those living on earth, whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, will be surprised when they see the beast because it was, is no longer, and will come again.