32 Bible Verses about A Short Time
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you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.
Because of this, rejoice, you heavens, and those who live in them! Woe [to] the earth and [to] the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great anger, [because he] knows that he has little time!"
Go, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide for {a very little} while, until [the] wrath has passed over.
But now for a brief moment mercy has been shown by Yahweh our God, who left behind for us a remnant, and given us security in his holy place--for our God to brighten our eyes and to give us brief relief in our bondage.
So Yahweh cut off head and tail from Israel, palm branch and reed [in] one day.
"Then in his place will arise [one] sending an official [throughout] [the] glory of [his] kingdom, and {in a few days} he will be broken, but not in anger and not in battle.
And he led him up [and] showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
So they kept on saying, "What is this that he is saying, 'A little [while]'? We do not understand what he is speaking about!"
For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit {not many days from now}."
{for the Lord will execute his sentence thoroughly and decisively} upon the earth."
For if indeed I grieved you by my letter, I do not regret [it]. Even if I did regret [it] (I see that that letter grieved you, even though for {a short time}),
to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, in order that the truth of the gospel might remain continually with you.
standing {far off} because of the fear of her torment, saying, "Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon the powerful city, because in one hour your judgment has come!"
And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and mourning, saying, "Woe, woe, the great city, in which all those who had ships on the sea became rich from her prosperity, because in one hour she has been laid waste!"
For they disciplined [us] for a few days according to what seemed [appropriate] to them, but he [does so] for our benefit, in order that [we] can have a share in his holiness.
Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and whenever he comes it is necessary [for] him to remain a short time.
And if [there are] a few years left until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall calculate for himself; he shall restore his redemption {according to the number of his years}.
And unless those days had been shortened, {no human being would be saved}. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.
And if the Lord had not shortened the days, {no human being would be saved}. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he has shortened the days.
But I say this, brothers: the time is shortened, that from now on even those who have wives should be as [if they] do not have [wives],
and threw him into the abyss, and shut [it] and sealed [it] above him, in order that he could not deceive the nations again until the thousand years are completed. After these [things] it is necessary [for] him to be released [for] a short time.
For yet "a very, very little [while], [and] the one who is coming will come and will not delay.
"A little [while] and you will see me no more, and again a little [while] and you will see me.
Jesus knew that they were wanting to ask him, and he said to them, "Are you deliberating with one another about this--that I said, 'A little [while], and you will not see me, and again a little [while] and you will see me'?
in which you rejoice greatly, [although] now for a short time, if necessary, you are distressed by various trials,
And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, [after you] have suffered for a short time, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, [and] establish [you].
For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory {beyond all measure and proportion},
{In a very little while} shall not Lebanon change into fruitful land, and the fruitful land be regarded as forest?
For thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Once again, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and dry land.
And after not many days, the younger son gathered everything [and] went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth [by] living wastefully.
Do not boast {about tomorrow}, for you do not know what the day will bring.
