For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.

And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.