And if those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's chosen 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 the people chosen as His own He has cut them short.

I mean this, brothers. The time has been cut short. For the future, men who have wives should live as though they had none,

For everybody has sinned and everybody continues to come short of God's glory,

so that there is no spiritual gift in which you consciously come short, while you are waiting for the unveiling of our Lord Jesus Christ,

For they disciplined us only a short time, as it seemed proper to them, but He does it for our good, in order that we may share His holy character.

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

By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I regard him, I have written you this short letter, to encourage you and to testify that this is the true, unmerited favor of God. Stand firm in it.

For whoever lacks these qualities is blind -- or short-sighted-- and forgetful of the cleansing that he has received from his former sins.

So celebrate your triumph, you heavens and you who live in them! Alas for the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you in a great rage, since he knows that his time is short!"

So He called them to Him, and continued speaking to them in short stories, as follows: "How can Satan drive out Satan?

Then He told them a short story: "No one tears a piece from a new coat and puts it on an old one; or if he does, he will tear the new one too, and the patch from the new coat will not match the old one.

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

Then one of them struck the high priest's slave and cut off his right ear.

Now Paul stayed a considerable time longer in Corinth, and then bade the brothers goodbye and set sail for Syria, accompanied by Aquila and Priscilla. At Cenchreae he had his hair cut, for he was under a vow.

Are you not the Egyptian who sometime ago raised a mob of four thousand cut-throats and led them out into the desert?"

Then the soldiers cut the ropes that held the boat and let it drift away.

for I could wish myself accursed, even cut off from Christ, for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen.

For if you were cut off from an olive wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted on to a fine olive stock, how much easier will it be for the natural branches to be grafted on to their own olive stock?

And I shall keep on doing as I am, in order to cut the ground from under the feet of those who want an opportunity to show themselves on a level with me in the matters of which they boast.

You people, whoever you are among you, who try to get into right standing with God, through law have cut yourselves off from Christ, you have missed the way of God's favor.

You were running beautifully! Who was it that cut into your way and kept you from obeying the truth?

Now the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Every tree then that fails to bear good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire.

And if your right hand causes you to do wrong, cut it off and put it out of your way, for it is better to have one part of your body suffer loss than to have your whole body go down to the pit.

Any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and burned up.

"And if your own hand or your own foot makes you do wrong, cut it off and put it out of your way. It is better for you to get into life maimed or crippled than to have both hands or both feet to be thrown into everlasting torture.