32 Bible Verses about A Short Time

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

For this reason, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time.”

Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury subsides,

Come, my people, enter into your rooms
And close your doors behind you;
Hide for a little while
Until indignation runs its course.

But now for a brief moment grace has been shown from the Lord our God, to leave us an escaped remnant and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our bondage.

So the Lord cuts off head and tail from Israel,
Both palm branch and bulrush in a single day.

“Then in his place one will arise who will send an oppressor through the Jewel of his kingdom; yet within a few days he will be shattered, though not in anger nor in battle.

And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

So they were saying, “What is this that He says, ‘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 execute His word on the earth, thoroughly and quickly.”

For though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it—for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while—

But we did not yield in subjection to them for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

standing at a distance because of the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For in one hour your judgment has come.’

And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had ships at sea became rich by her wealth, for in one hour she has been laid waste!’

For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.

and they are seven kings; five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while.

and if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall so calculate with him. In proportion to his years he is to refund the amount for his redemption.

Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Unless the Lord had shortened those days, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom He chose, He shortened the days.

But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;

and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.

For yet in a very little while,
He who is coming will come, and will not delay.

“A little while, and you will no longer see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me.”

Jesus knew that they wished to question Him, and He said to them, “Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me’?

In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials,

After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.

For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,

Is it not yet just a little while
Before Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field,
And the fertile field will be considered as a forest?

For thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Once more in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea also and the dry land.

And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living.

Do not boast about tomorrow,
For you do not know what a day may bring forth.