For in finishing the account and cutting it short in righteousness, the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.

And the wine falling short, the mother of Jesus saith unto Him, They have no wine.

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

But this I say, brethren, that the time is short: it remains therefore, that even those, who have wives, be as though they had none;

For our short and light affliction is working out for us an infinite and eternal weight of glory, as we aim not at the things which are visible, but invisible:

Am I become vain in boasting? ye have forced me to it: for I ought to have been recommended by you, as I have in nothing fallen short of the very chiefest of the apostles, though in myself I am nothing.

Let us therefore fear least a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of us should seem to fall short of it:

looking to it, least there be any one falling short of the grace of God, least any root of bitterness springing up should be troublesome, and by it many be defiled:

But he, that hath not these, is blind, or short-sighted, having forgot his baptismal purification from his former sins.

Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them: but wo to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea; for the devil is come down to you, in great rage, knowing that he hath but a short time.

yet hath he no root in himself, and therefore is but for a short season; and when affliction cometh, or persecution on account of the word, he is as soon disgusted.

immediately receive it with joy, but have no root in themselves, and so continue but for a short season: and then, when affliction cometh, or persecution on account of the word, they are as soon offended.