For, yet a little while, how short! how short! The Coming One will be here, and will not tarry;

looking carefully lest there be any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you , and thereby the many be defiled;

Let us be afraid therefore, lest, a promise being left behind to enter into his rest, any of you should seem to have come short.

Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;

For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.

I beg you, brothers, to listen patiently to this message, for I have written you only a short letter.

Our brother Timothy has been let out of prison; and if he comes here in a short time, he and I will come to you together.

You made him lower than the angels
for a short time;
You crowned him with glory and honor

But we do see Jesus—made lower than the angels for a short time so that by God’s grace He might taste death for everyone—crowned with glory and honor because of His suffering in death.

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any of us by imitating their incredulity, should fall short thereof like them.

And what shall I more say? The time would be too short for me to tell of Gideon, of Barach, and of Samson, and of Jephthah. Also of David and Samuel, and of the prophets,

They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,

Cut through and make smooth, straight paths for your feet [that are safe and go in the right direction], so that the leg which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather may be healed.