12 Bible Verses about Short Time For Action

And the devil taking him up into an exceeding high mountain, displayed before him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time:

They said therefore, What is this which he saith, This little while? we know not what he means.

For John indeed baptised with water; but ye shall be baptised with the Holy Ghost not many days after the present.

for he will finish the account, and cut it short in righteousness: because a concise account will the Lord make on the earth."

For if I grieved you by a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that this letter made you sorry, though but for a season.

to whom not even for an hour have we yielded subjection, that the truth of the gospel might abide with you.

Therefore in one hour shall all her plagues come, death, and mourning, and famine: and she shall be consumed with fire; because mighty is the Lord God, who judgeth her.

standing afar off through terror of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that strong city! how in one hour is thy judgment come upon thee!

And every pilot, and all the crew in the ships, and the mariners, and as many as exercise their labours on the sea, stood afar off,

And they cast dust upon their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, by which all who occupied ships on the sea were enriched from her opulence! how in one hour is she made desolate!

For they indeed for a few days as seemed proper to themselves corrected us; but he for our own advantage, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

And these are seven kings: five have fallen, and the one exists, the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must abide but a little while.