so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, ¹  to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin ²  but to bring salvation. ³ 

¹ Because Christ also suffered ²  once for sins, the just for the unjust, ³  to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but ⁴  by being made alive in the spirit. ⁵ 

Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you ¹  about our common salvation, I now feel compelled ²  instead to write to encourage ³  you to contend earnestly ⁴  for the faith ⁵  that was once for all ⁶  entrusted to the saints. ⁷ 

Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your ¹  minds ²  as expressed through ³  your evil deeds,

Immediately I was in the Spirit, ¹  and ²  a throne was standing ³  in heaven with someone seated on it!

Finally Abraham ¹  said, “May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”

Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts ¹  once for all ² ) that Jesus, ³  having saved the ⁴  people out of the land of Egypt, later ⁵  destroyed those who did not believe.

Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses, saying, “Let us go up ¹  and occupy it, ²  for we are well able to conquer it.” ³ 

Moreover, the Lord who rules over all says: ‘In just a little while ¹  I will once again shake the sky ²  and the earth, the sea and the dry ground.

he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee. ¹ 

Then ¹  he bent over again and wrote on the ground.

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.

If someone wishes ¹  to contend ²  with him, he cannot answer ³  him one time in a thousand.

“For God speaks, the first time in one way, the second time in another, though a person does not perceive ¹  it.

Again the Lord said to me, “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. ¹ 

When the disciples saw it they were amazed, saying, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”

The one who had received five talents went off right away and put his money to work ¹  and gained five more.

Simon’s mother-in-law was lying down, sick with a fever, so ¹  they spoke to Jesus ²  at once about her.

If God is glorified in him, ¹  God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him right away. ²