'Cut' in the Bible

For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

This is true; yet it was their unbelief that cut them off, and you only stand through your faith.

Behold then the goodness and severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou shalt abide in goodness, since otherwise thou also wilt be cut away.

For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?