32 Bible Verses about A Short Time
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You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.
Therefore rejoice, you heavens,
and you who dwell in them!
Woe to the earth and the sea,
for the Devil has come down to you
with great fury,
because he knows he has a short time.
Go, my people, enter your rooms
and close your doors behind you.
Hide for a little while until the wrath has passed.
But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from Yahweh our God to preserve a remnant for us and give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our slavery, God has given us new life and light to our eyes.
So the Lord cut off Israel’s head and tail,
palm branch and reed in a single day.
“In his place one will arise who will send out a tax collector for the glory of the kingdom; but within a few days he will be shattered, though not in anger or in battle.
So he took Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
They said, “What is this He is saying, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what He’s talking about!”
for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
for the Lord will execute His sentence
completely and decisively on the earth.
For even if I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it—even though I did regret it since I saw that the letter grieved you, yet only for a little while.
But we did not give up and submit to these people for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would be preserved for you.
They will stand far off in fear of her torment, saying:
Woe, woe, the great city,
Babylon, the mighty city!
For in a single hour
your judgment has come.
They threw dust on their heads and kept crying out, weeping, and mourning:
Woe, woe, the great city,
where all those who have ships on the sea
became rich from her wealth,
for in a single hour she was destroyed.
For they disciplined us for a short time based on what seemed good to them, but He does it for our benefit, so that we can share His holiness.
They are also seven kings: Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he comes, he must remain for a little while.
If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he will calculate and pay the price of his redemption in proportion to his remaining years.
Unless those days were limited, no one would survive. But those days will be limited because of the elect.
Unless the Lord limited those days, no one would survive. But He limited those days because of the elect, whom He chose.
And I say this, brothers: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,
He threw him into the abyss, closed it, and put a seal on it so that he would no longer deceive the nations until the 1,000 years were completed. After that, he must be released for a short time.
“A little while and you will no longer see Me; again a little while and you will see Me.”
Jesus knew they wanted to question Him, so He said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘A little while and you will not see Me; again a little while and you will see Me’?
You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to struggle in various trials
Now the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will personally restore, establish, strengthen, and support you after you have suffered a little.
For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.
Isn’t it true that in just a little while
Lebanon will become an orchard,
and the orchard will seem like a forest?
For the Lord of Hosts says this: “Once more, in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.
Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his estate in foolish living.
