32 Bible Verses about A Short Time

Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."

Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away;

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

Then shall stand up in his place one who shall cause a tax collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory; but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A little while?' We don't know what he is saying."

For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."

For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.'

They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!' For in one hour is she made desolate.

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.

If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.

Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

"In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me."

Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

Isn't it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?

For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: 'Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

Don't boast about tomorrow; for you don't know what a day may bring forth.