'Once' in the Bible

After listening to the king they left, and once again the star they saw when it rose led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

Jesus said to him, "Once again it is written: 'You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.'"

If anyone says anything to you, you are to say, 'The Lord needs them,' and he will send them at once."

After noticing a fig tree by the road he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, "Never again will there be fruit from you!" And the fig tree withered at once.

So leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same thing once more.

Simon's mother-in-law was lying down, sick with a fever, so they spoke to Jesus at once about her.

The leprosy left him at once, and he was clean.

Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

At once the bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.

Jesus knew at once that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

The girl got up at once and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). They were completely astonished at this.

So the king sent an executioner at once to bring John's head, and he went and beheaded John in prison.

When the whole crowd saw him, they were amazed and ran at once and greeted him.

In the house once again, the disciples asked him about this.

She came up behind Jesus and touched the edge of his cloak, and at once the bleeding stopped.

Once when Jesus was praying by himself, and his disciples were nearby, he asked them, "Who do the crowds say that I am?"

Jesus also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, 'A rainstorm is coming,' and it does.

Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him, 'Lord, let us in!' But he will answer you, 'I don't know where you come from.'

But Jesus said to him, "A man once gave a great banquet and invited many guests.

"Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, 'Come at once and sit down for a meal'?

And when you hear of wars and rebellions, do not be afraid. For these things must happen first, but the end will not come at once."

Pilate addressed them once again because he wanted to release Jesus.

he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.

Then Peter took hold of him by the right hand and raised him up, and at once the man's feet and ankles were made strong.

At once she collapsed at his feet and died. So when the young men came in, they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

Therefore I sent for you at once, and you were kind enough to come. So now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to say to us."

After they had passed the first and second guards, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went outside and walked down one narrow street, when at once the angel left him.

She continued to do this for many days. But Paul became greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" And it came out of her at once.

The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea at once, during the night. When they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue.

Then the brothers sent Paul away to the coast at once, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.

When I was informed there would be a plot against this man, I sent him to you at once, also ordering his accusers to state their charges against him before you.

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Three times I was beaten with a rod. Once I received a stoning. Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea.

They were only hearing, "The one who once persecuted us is now proclaiming the good news of the faith he once tried to destroy."

But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God's law.

I put this charge before you, Timothy my child, in keeping with the prophecies once spoken about you, in order that with such encouragement you may fight the good fight.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

He has no need to do every day what those priests do, to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for the sins of the people, since he did this in offering himself once for all.

But only the high priest enters once a year into the inner tent, and not without blood that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.

for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.

And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,

so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.

For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?

By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too."

Now this phrase "once more" indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.

You once were not a people, but now you are God's people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you about our common salvation, I now feel compelled instead to write to encourage you to contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.

Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.