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

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.

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,

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,

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.

All these people lived all their lives in faith, and died without receiving what had been promised; they only saw it far ahead and welcomed the sight of it, recognizing that they themselves were only foreigners and strangers here on earth.

whoever says, "I am always in union with him" must live just as he lived.