23 Bible Verses about A Short Time

when all the time you do not know what will happen on the morrow. For what is your life? You are but a mist, appearing for a brief time, and then vanishing.

Therefore rejoice, O heavens, And you who dwell therein! Woe to the earth and the sea! For the devil has gone down to you in great fury, Because he knows that he has but little time."

And the devil led him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited earth in an instant of time, and the devil said to him.

So they kept asking. "What does that 'little while' mean of which he speaks? We do not know what he is talking about."

"For John indeed baptized in water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days hence."

for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.

Even if I caused you pain by my letter, I do not regret; though I did regret it when I saw that my letter had caused you pain, even for a time.

To them we did not yield submission even for an hour, in order that the truth of the gospel might abide unshaken among you.

Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city Babylon, the strong city! In one hour is your judgment come!'

And they threw dust on their heads, and cried out, Weeping and mourning, saying, "'Woe, woe, the great city, In which all who have ships on the sea Grew rich through her luxury! For in one hour she is made desolate!'"

For they only disciplined us for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, that we may share his holiness.

and they are seven kings; the five have fallen, one is, the other is not yet come (and when he does come, he must remain a short time).

And if these days had not been shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but for the elect's sake these days will be cut short.

And had not the Lord cut short those days, not a single person would escape; but for the elect's sake whom he has chosen, he has cut them short.

Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none,

and flung him into the bottomless pit, and shut and sealed it over him, so that he should seduce the nations no more, until the thousand years were completed. After that it is necessary to loose him for a little while.

For yet a very, very little while, and then The Coming One will have come, without delay.

"In a little while you shall behold me no more; and again in a little while you shall see me, because I am going to the Father."

Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and said: "Are you questioning one another about my saying, 'A little while and you shall behold me no more, and again a little while you shall see me'?

Exult in this, though now for a brief moment, if need be, you have suffered many hardships.

But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

For my light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,

"Not many days after that the younger son gathered everything together and took his journey into a distant country; and there he wasted his money on living unsavingly.