'One' in the Bible

And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.

Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.

All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.

And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.

Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.

They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

{A Song of degrees.} Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.

They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.