If those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's people those days will be cut short.

If the Lord had not cut those days short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of his own chosen people he has cut the days short.

for he preferred sharing the hardships of God's people to a short-lived enjoyment of sin,

For they disciplined us for a short time and as they thought proper, but he does it for our good, to make us share his holiness.

By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I think him, I have written you this short letter to encourage you and bear my testimony that this is what the true mercy of God means. Stand fast in it.

Therefore, rejoice, you heavens and you who live in them! But alas for the earth and the sea, for the devil has descended upon you in a great rage, for he knows that he has only a short time left."

For all men sin and come short of the glory of God,

But this I do say, brothers. The appointed time has grown very short. From this time on those who have wives should live as though they had none,

For if a woman will not wear a veil, let her cut off her hair too. But if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her wear a veil.

I am hard pressed on every side, but never cut off: perplexed, but not driven to despair;

And I shall go on doing as I do, so as to cut the ground from under those who want to make out that in their boasted apostleship they work on the same terms that I do.