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 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 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 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.

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.

and will cut him in two, and give him his share with the hypocrites, where they will weep and grind their teeth."

They were cut to the bottom of their hearts, and began to ask one by one, "It cannot be I, can it, Lord?"

One of the men with Jesus put out his hand and drew his sword, and with a thrust at the high priest's slave cut off his ear.

and laid it in a tomb of his, which he had cut out of the rock, and he rolled a big boulder over the doorway of the tomb, and went away.