And if those days had not been made short there would have been no salvation for any, but because of the saints those days will be made short.

And if the Lord had not made the time short, no flesh would have been kept from destruction; but because of the saints he has made the time short.

And now be certain that you will come to your end by the sword and by being short of food and by disease, in the place to which you are pleased to go for a living-place.

No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.

But I will come to you in a short time, if it is pleasing to the Lord, and I will take note, not of the word of those who are full of pride, but of the power.

Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;

See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

How by revelation the secret was made clear to me, as I said before in a short letter,

How short is the life of your servant! when will you give your decision against those who are attacking me?

But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;

The fear of the Lord gives long life, but the years of the evil-doer will be cut short.

He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.

Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;

For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.

Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

Our brother Timothy has been let out of prison; and if he comes here in a short time, he and I will come to you together.

For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like.

I have sent you this short letter by Silvanus, a true brother, in my opinion; comforting you and witnessing that this is the true grace of God; keep to it.

For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

But I am hoping to see you in a short time, and to have talk with you face to face. May you have peace. Your friends here send you their love. Give my love to our friends by name.

Be glad then, O heavens, and you who are in them. But there is trouble for the earth and the sea: because the Evil One has come down to you, being very angry, having the knowledge that he has but a short time.

And it came about, after a short time, that he went through town and country giving the good news of the kingdom of God, and with him were the twelve,

For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.

But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.

Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over.

In a very short time Lebanon will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will seem like a wood.

For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.

Truly, the Lord's hand has not become short, so that he is unable to give salvation; and his ear is not shut from hearing:

They would have nothing to do with the Lord, saying, He will do nothing, and no evil will come to us; we will not see the sword or be short of food:

Then I said, Ah, Lord God! see, the prophets say to them, You will not see the sword or be short of food; but I will give you certain peace in this place.

Such will be the fate of all the men whose minds are fixed on going into Egypt and stopping there; they will come to their end by the sword, by being short of food, and by disease: not one of them will keep his life or get away from the evil which I will send on them.

And I will take the last of Judah, whose minds are fixed on going into the land of Egypt and stopping there, and they will all come to their end, falling in the land of Egypt by the sword and by being short of food and by disease; death will overtake them, from the least to the greatest, death by the sword and by need of food: they will become an oath and a cause of wonder and a curse and a name of shame.

Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:

And I will make you free from all your unclean ways: and at my voice the grain will come up and be increased, and I will not let you be short of food.

Then his place will be taken by one who will send out a man with the glory of a king to get wealth together; but after a short time destruction will overtake him, but not in wrath or in the fight.

But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers.

Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?

But, so that I may not make you tired, I make a request to you of your mercy, to give hearing to a short statement.

But Festus, in answer, said that Paul was being kept in prison at Caesarea, and that in a short time he himself was going there.

For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In a short time I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land;

For the Lord will give effect to his word on the earth, putting an end to it and cutting it short.

For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

And when the disciples saw it they were surprised, saying, How did the fig-tree become dry in so short a time?

For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

Let his life be short; let another take his position of authority.

But their memory of his works was short; not waiting to be guided by him,

I give witness against you this day that destruction will certainly be your fate, and your days will be cut short in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage on the other side of Jordan.

Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.

And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.

And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.

Now a short time after, at the time of the grain-cutting, Samson, taking with him a young goat, went to see his wife; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the bride's room. But her father would not let him go in.

In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.

But Pharaoh said to him, What have you been short of while you have been with me, that you are desiring to go back to your country? And he said, Nothing; but even so, send me back.

They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh.

And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free.

But the Rab-shakeh said to them, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.

And the Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand become short? Now you will see if my word comes true for you or not.

And the Lord, seeing that they had made themselves low, said to Shemaiah, They have made themselves low: I will not send destruction on them, but in a short time I will give them salvation, and will not let loose my wrath on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.

As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.