23 Bible Verses about A Short Time

when, all the while, you do not even know what will happen to-morrow. For what is the nature of your life? Why, it is but a mist, which appears for a short time and then is seen no more.

For this reason be glad, O Heaven, and you who live in Heaven! Alas for the earth and the sea! For the Devil has come down to you; full of fierce anger, because he knows that his appointed time is short."

The Devil next led Him up and caused Him to see at a glance all the kingdoms of the world.

So they asked one another repeatedly, "What can that 'little while' mean which He speaks of? We do not understand His words."

For John indeed baptized with water, but before many days have passed you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit."

for the Lord will hold a reckoning upon the earth, making it efficacious and brief."

For if I gave you pain by that letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it then. I see that that letter, even though for a time it gave you pain, had a salutary effect.

But not for an hour did we give way and submit to them; in order that the Good News might continue with you in its integrity.

while they stand afar off because of their terror at her heavy punishment, and say, 'Alas, alas, thou great city, O Babylon, the mighty city! For in one short hour thy doom has come!'

And they threw dust upon their heads, and cried out, weeping aloud and sorrowing. 'Alas, alas,' they said, 'for this great city, in which, through her vast wealth, the owners of all the ships on the sea have grown rich; because in one short hour she has been laid waste!'

It is true that they disciplined us for a few years according as they thought fit; but He does it for our certain good, in order that we may become sharers in His own holy character.

And they are seven kings: five of them have fallen, and the one is still reigning. The seventh has not yet come, but when he comes he must continue for a short time.

And if those days had not been cut short, no one would escape; but for the sake of God's own People those days will be cut short.

and but for the fact that the Lord has cut short those days, no one would escape; but for the sake of His own People whom He has chosen for Himself He has cut short the days.

Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,

He closed the entrance and put a seal upon him in order that he might be unable to lead the nations astray any more until the thousand years were at an end. Afterwards he is to be set at liberty for a short time.

For there is still but a short time and then "The coming One will come and will not delay.

"A little while and you see me no more, and again a little while and you shall see me."

Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask Him, and He said, "Is this what you are questioning one another about--my saying, 'A little while and you do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me'?

Rejoice triumphantly in the prospect of this, even if now, for a short time, you are compelled to sorrow amid various trials.

And God, the giver of all grace, who has called you to share His eternal glory, through Christ, after you have suffered for a short time, will Himself make you perfect, firm, and strong.

For this our light and transitory burden of suffering is achieving for us a preponderating, yes, a vastly preponderating, and eternal weight of glory;

No long time afterwards the younger son got all together and travelled to a distant country, where he wasted his money in debauchery and excess.