32 Bible Verses about A Short Time

You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

So be glad, heavens, and those who live in them! How terrible it is for the earth and the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, filled with rage, knowing that his time is short!"

and stay there with him a few days until your brother's fury subsides.

Come, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by.

Though now, for a moment, grace has been shown from the LORD our God, leaving a few survivors to escape, and providing us a secure hold in his Holy Place, so that our God might enlighten us and give us relief from our servitude.

So the LORD has cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in a single day

His successor will send out a tax collector for royal splendor, but in a short period of time he'll be shattered, though neither in anger nor in battle.'"

The Devil also took him to a high place and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in an instant.

They kept saying, "What is this "in a little while' that he keeps talking about? We don't know what he means."

because John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit a few days from now."

For the Lord will carry out his plan decisively, bringing it to completion on the earth."

If I made you sad with my letter, I do not regret it, although I did regret it then. I see that the letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while.

But we did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might always remain with you.

Frightened by the torture that she experiences, they will stand far away and cry out, "How terrible, how terrible it is for that great city, the powerful city Babylon, because your judgment arrived in a single hour!"

Then they threw dust on their heads and shouted while crying and mourning: "How terrible, how terrible it is for the great city, where all who had ships at sea became rich from her wealth, because it has been destroyed in a single hour!

For a short time they disciplined us as they thought best, but God does it for our good, so that we may share in his holiness.

Five of them have fallen, one is living, and the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must remain in power for a little while.

But if only a few years are left until the year of jubilee, he is to bring an accounting of the years that he is to refund for his redemption.

If those days hadn't been limited, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be limited.

If the Lord had not shortened those days, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect whom he has chosen, he has shortened those days.

This is what I mean, brothers: The time is short. From now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none,

He threw him into the bottomless pit, locked it, and sealed it over him to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were over. After that, he must be set free for a little while.

For "in a very little while the one who is coming will return he will not delay;

In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again."

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him a question, so he asked them, "Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again'?

You greatly rejoice in this, even though you have to suffer various kinds of trials for a little while,

After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you by the Messiah Jesus to his eternal glory, will restore you, establish you, strengthen you, and support you.

This light, temporary nature of our suffering is producing for us an everlasting weight of glory, far beyond any comparison,

"In a very little while, will not Lebanon be turned into a garden of fruit, and the garden of fruit seem like a forest?

"For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Once more, in a little while, I will make the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land to shake.

A few days later, the younger son gathered everything he owned and traveled to a distant country. There he wasted it all on wild living.

Never brag about the day to come, because you don't know what it might bring.