'Once' in the Bible

Once they crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.

telling them, “Go into the village ahead of you. At once you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to Me.

Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And He said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” At once the fig tree withered.

Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables:

After leaving them, He went away again and prayed a third time, saying the same thing once more.

Or do you think that I cannot call on My Father, and He will provide Me at once with more than 12 legions of angels?

Simon’s mother-in-law was lying in bed with a fever, and they told Him about her at once.

Then He sternly warned him and sent him away at once,

At once Jesus realized in Himself that power had gone out from Him. He turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My robes?”

He set out from there and went to the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Then crowds converged on Him again and, as He usually did, He began teaching them once more.

Once again He went away and prayed, saying the same thing.

Her spirit returned, and she got up at once. Then He gave orders that she be given something to eat.

You must be like people waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

once the homeowner gets up and shuts the door. Then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up for us!’ He will answer you, ‘I don’t know you or where you’re from.’

“Which one of you having a slave tending sheep or plowing will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?

Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat was at the shore where they were heading.

Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from David’s offspring and from the town of Bethlehem, where David once lived?”

If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself and will glorify Him at once.

But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out.

Then, taking him by the right hand he raised him up, and at once his feet and ankles became strong.

At once something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized.

At once an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he became infected with worms and died.

Once, as we were on our way to prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit of prediction. She made a large profit for her owners by fortune-telling.

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul, dragged him out of the temple complex, and at once the gates were shut.

Therefore, those who were about to examine him withdrew from him at once. The commander too was alarmed when he realized Paul was a Roman citizen and he had bound him.

For in light of the fact that He died, He died to sin once for all; but in light of the fact that He lives, He lives to God.

Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life

As you once disobeyed God, but now have received mercy through their disobedience,

whenever I travel to Spain. For I hope to see you when I pass through, and to be assisted by you for my journey there, once I have first enjoyed your company for a while.

And we are ready to punish any disobedience, once your obedience has been confirmed.

Three times I was beaten with rods by the Romans.Once I was stoned by my enemies.Three times I was shipwrecked.I have spent a night and a dayin the open sea.

they simply kept hearing: “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith he once tried to destroy.”

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light—

although I once also had confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil actions.

and you once walked in these things when you were living in them.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

Once he was useless to you, but now he is useful both to you and to me.

For it is impossible to renew to repentance those who were once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly gift, became companions with the Holy Spirit,

He doesn’t need to offer sacrifices every day, as high priests do—first for their own sins, then for those of the people. He did this once for all when He offered Himself.

But the high priest alone enters the second room, and he does that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

He entered the most holy place once for all, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.

And just as it is appointed for people to die once—and after this, judgment—

so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him.

Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, once purified, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

By this will of God, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.

His voice shook the earth at that time, but now He has promised, Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also heaven.

This expression, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what is not shaken might remain.

Once you were not a people,but now you are God’s people;you had not received mercy,but now you have received mercy.

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all,the righteous for the unrighteous,that He might bring you to God,after being put to death in the fleshly realmbut made alive in the spiritual realm.

Dear friends, although I was eager to write you about the salvation we share, I found it necessary to write and exhort you to contend for the faith that was delivered to the saints once for all.