For perfecting the word and cutting it short, will the Lord do a complete work on the earth:

And having sounded, they found it twenty fathoms; and moving on a short distance, and sounding again, they found it fifteen fathoms;

for all sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

But a certain Pharisee, Gamaliel by name, a teacher of the law, honorable to all the people, rising in the sanhedrim command them to put the men out for a short time,

Then let us fear, lest at some time, the promise to enter into his rest having been left, some of you may appear to have come short.