23 Bible Verses about A Short Time

when you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! You are just a mist, which appears for a little while and then disappears.

Therefore, rejoice, you heavens and you who live in them! But alas for the earth and the sea, for the devil has descended upon you in a great rage, for he knows that he has only a short time left."

And he took him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.

So they kept saying "What does he mean by 'In a little while'? We do not know what he is talking about."

"for John baptized people in water, but in a few days you will be baptized in the holy Spirit."

for the Lord will execute his sentence rigorously and swiftly on the earth."

For even if I did hurt your feelings with that letter, I cannot regret it; even if I did regret it, when I saw that the letter had hurt your feelings perhaps for a while,

But we did not submit to them for a moment, in order that the truth of the good news might remain yours.

They will stand a long way off for fear of her torture and say, 'Alas! Alas for the great city, for Babylon the mighty city, for in a single hour your judgment has overtaken you!'

They threw dust on their heads and wept and mourned, crying out, 'Alas! Alas for the great city, where all who had ships on the sea grew rich through her extravagance! For in a single hour she has been destroyed!'

For they disciplined us for a short time and as they thought proper, but he does it for our good, to make us share his holiness.

They are also seven kings; five have fallen, one is reigning, the other has not yet come, and when he does his stay must be brief.

If those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's people those days will be cut short.

If the Lord had not cut those days short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of his own chosen people he has cut the days short.

But this I do say, brothers. The appointed time has grown very short. From this time on those who have wives should live as though they had none,

and hurled him into the abyss and he closed it and sealed it over him, to keep him from leading the heathen astray any longer, until the thousand years are over; after that he has to be released for a little while.

For "In a very little while He who is to come will come and not delay,

"In a little while you will not see me any longer, and a little while after, you will see me again."

Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him a question, and he said to them, "Are you asking one another about my saying 'In a little while you will not see me any longer, and a little while after, you will see me again'?

Rejoice over this, although just now perhaps distressed by various trials;

And God, the giver of all mercy, who through your union with Christ has called you to his eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while will himself make you perfect, steadfast, and strong.

For this slight, momentary trouble is piling up for me an eternal blessedness beyond all comparison,

Not many days later, the younger son gathered up all he had, and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered his property by fast living.