21 Bible Verses about Short Time For Action

and stay with him for a few days until your brother’s anger subsides—

Go, my people, enter your rooms
and close your doors behind you.
Hide for a little while until the wrath has passed.

But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from Yahweh our God to preserve a remnant for us and give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our slavery, God has given us new life and light to our eyes.

But there are many people, and it is the rainy season. We don’t have the stamina to stay out in the open. This isn’t something that can be done in a day or two, for we have rebelled terribly in this matter.

before his colleagues and the powerful men of Samaria, and said, “What are these pathetic Jews doing? Can they restore it by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they ever finish it? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

Israel’s Light will become a fire,
and its Holy One, a flame.
In one day it will burn up Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

So the Lord cut off Israel’s head and tail,
palm branch and reed in a single day.

During a time of peace, he will come into the richest parts of the province and do what his fathers and predecessors never did. He will lavish plunder, loot, and wealth on his followers, and he will make plans against fortified cities, but only for a time.

“In his place one will arise who will send out a tax collector for the glory of the kingdom; but within a few days he will be shattered, though not in anger or in battle.

So he took Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

They said, “What is this He is saying, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what He’s talking 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
completely and decisively on the earth.

For even if I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it—even though I did regret it since I saw that the letter grieved you, yet only for a little while.

But we did not give up and submit to these people for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would be preserved for you.

For this reason her plagues will come in one day—
death and grief and famine.
She will be burned up with fire,
because the Lord God who judges her is mighty.

They will stand far off in fear of her torment, saying:

Woe, woe, the great city,
Babylon, the mighty city!
For in a single hour
your judgment has come.

for in a single hour
such fabulous wealth was destroyed!

And every shipmaster, seafarer, the sailors, and all who do business by sea, stood far off

They threw dust on their heads and kept crying out, weeping, and mourning:

Woe, woe, the great city,
where all those who have ships on the sea
became rich from her wealth,
for in a single hour she was destroyed.

For they disciplined us for a short time based on what seemed good to them, but He does it for our benefit, so that we can share His holiness.

They are also seven kings: Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he comes, he must remain for a little while.