32 Bible Verses about A Short Time

and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

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, knowing that he has but a short time.

and dwell with him a few days until thy brother's fury turns away,

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself, as it were, for a little moment until the indignation is overpast.

And now as for a brief moment there has been the mercy of the LORD our God, to leave us an escape, and that we may be given a stake in his holy sanctuary that our God may illuminate our eyes and give us a little preservation of life in our bondage.

Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

Then shall succeed in his throne a taker of taxes who shall be the glory of the kingdom, but within few days he shall be broken, neither in anger, nor in battle.

And the devil took him up into a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the sphere of the world in a moment of time.

They said therefore, What is this that he says, A little while? we cannot understand what he says.

For John truly baptized in water, but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.

when the consumption comes to an end, righteousness shall overflow, because a short sentence will the Lord execute upon the earth.

For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent; for I perceive that the same epistle has made you sorry, though it were but for a season.

Unto whom we did not submit even for one hour that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.

Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city; for in one hour is thy judgment come!

And they cast dust on their heads and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, in which all that had ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her riches! for in one hour is she made desolate.

For they verily for a few days chastened us as it seemed good unto them, but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

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

And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved, but for the elect's sake, whom he has chosen, he has shortened those days.

But this I say, brothers, the time is short; for the rest, let those that have wives be as though they had none;

and cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon it, that he should deceive the Gentiles no more, until the thousand years should be fulfilled; and after it is necessary that he be loosed a little while.

For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come and will not tarry.

A little while, and ye shall not see me; and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.

Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of what I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me; and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?

In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are afflicted in diverse temptations,

But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Jesus, the Christ, after ye have suffered a little while, he himself perfects, confirms, strengthens, and establishes you.

For our tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepares an exceeding and eternal weight of glory unto us;

Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into Carmel a fruitful field, and shall not Carmel be esteemed as a forest?

For thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Yet even once, and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land;

And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country and there wasted his estate with riotous living.

Boast not thyself of tomorrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.