32 Bible Verses about A Short Time
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yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!"
Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by.
But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery.
So the LORD cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day--
"Then shall arise in his place one who shall send an exactor of tribute for the glory of the kingdom. But within a few days he shall be broken, neither in anger nor in battle.
And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,
So they were saying, "What does he mean by 'a little while'? We do not know what he is 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 carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay."
For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it--though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while.
to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.
They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, "Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come."
And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out, "Alas, alas, for the great city where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been laid waste.
For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.
they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while.
If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service.
And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,
and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.
For, "Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay;
"A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me."
Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, "Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, 'A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me'?
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
For thus says the LORD of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.
Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.
