So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.

So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition from God.

Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.

In the same way, he also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, every time you drink it, in remembrance of me."

For every time you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

Then he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.

Last of all, as though to one born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

For I do not want to see you now in passing, since I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.

Therefore when I was planning to do this, I did not do so without thinking about what I was doing, did I? Or do I make my plans according to mere human standards so that I would be saying both "Yes, yes" and "No, no" at the same time?

For he says, "I heard you at the acceptable time, and in the day of salvation I helped you." Look, now is the acceptable time; look, now is the day of salvation!

For even if I made you sad by my letter, I do not regret having written it (even though I did regret it, for I see that my letter made you sad, though only for a short time).

At the present time, your abundance will meet their need, so that one day their abundance may also meet your need, and thus there may be equality,

Therefore I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you in advance and to arrange ahead of time the generous contribution you had promised, so this may be ready as a generous gift and not as something you feel forced to do.

Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Have you been thinking all this time that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up.

This is the third time I am coming to visit you. By the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter will be established.

I said before when I was present the second time and now, though absent, I say again to those who sinned previously and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare anyone,

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying, "All the nations will be blessed in you."

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light --

"that it may go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth."

I thank my God every time I remember you.

And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,

You also lived your lives in this way at one time, when you used to live among them.

At the same time pray for us too, that God may open a door for the message so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.

But when we were separated from you, brothers and sisters, for a short time (in presence, not in affection) we became all the more fervent in our great desire to see you in person.

And so you know what holds him back, so that he will be revealed in his own time.

who gave himself as a ransom for all, revealing God's purpose at his appointed time.

-- whose appearing the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, will reveal at the right time.

He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things.

For I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for me to depart is at hand.

But now in his own time he has made his message evident through the preaching I was entrusted with according to the command of God our Savior.

At the same time also, prepare a place for me to stay, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given back to you.

So God again ordains a certain day, "Today," speaking through David after so long a time, as in the words quoted before, "O, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts."

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.

And above the ark were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Now is not the time to speak of these things in detail.

This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.

But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God,

For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets.

Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those trained by it.

You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

who by God's power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer for a short time in various trials.

They probed into what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he testified beforehand about the sufferings appointed for Christ and his subsequent glory.

And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one's work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.

in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.

For it is time for judgment to begin, starting with the house of God. And if it starts with us, what will be the fate of those who are disobedient to the gospel of God?

And God will exalt you in due time, if you humble yourselves under his mighty hand

Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

For they said to you, "In the end time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires."

to the only God our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time, and now, and for all eternity. Amen.

Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy aloud, and blessed are those who hear and obey the things written in it, because the time is near!

I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

These two have the power to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the time they are prophesying. They have power to turn the waters to blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague whenever they want.

The nations were enraged, but your wrath has come, and the time has come for the dead to be judged, and the time has come to give to your servants, the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints and to those who revere your name, both small and great, and the time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth."

Therefore you heavens rejoice, and all who reside in them! But woe to the earth and the sea because the devil has come down to you! He is filled with terrible anger, for he knows that he only has a little time!"

But the woman was given the two wings of a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness, to the place God prepared for her, where she is taken care of -- away from the presence of the serpent -- for a time, times, and half a time.

Then another angel came out of the temple, shouting in a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud, "Use your sickle and start to reap, because the time to reap has come, since the earth's harvest is ripe!"

five have fallen; one is, and the other has not yet come, but whenever he does come, he must remain for only a brief time.

Then a second time the crowd shouted, "Hallelujah!" The smoke rises from her forever and ever.

The angel then threw him into the abyss and locked and sealed it so that he could not deceive the nations until the one thousand years were finished. (After these things he must be released for a brief period of time.)

Then he said to me, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy contained in this book, because the time is near.