32 Bible Verses about A Short Time

and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Therefore rejoice heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth, and of the sea: for the devil is come down unto you, which hath great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."

And tarry with him a while, until thy brother's fierceness be assuaged,

So go now my people into thy chamber, and shut the door to thee, and suffer now the twinkling of an eye, till the wrath be overpast.

But now is there a little and sudden graciousness come from the LORD our God, so that some of us are escaped: that he may give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may light our eyes, and give us a little life in our bondage.

Therefore the LORD shall root out of Israel both head and tail, branch and twig in one day.

so that he that came upon him and did him violence, shall stand in his place, and have a pleasant kingdom: and after few days he shall be destroyed: and that neither in wrath, nor in battle.

And the devil took him up into a high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, even in the twinkling of an eye.

They said therefore, "What is this that he saith, 'After a while?' We cannot tell what he saith."

For John baptised with water but ye shall be baptised with the holy ghost, and that within this few days."

He finisheth the work verily and maketh it short in righteousness. For a short word will God make on earth."

Wherefore though I made you sorry with a letter I repent not: though I did repent. For I perceive that that same Epistle made you sorry though it were but for a season.

To whom we gave no room - no, not for the space of a hour - as concerning to be brought into subjection: and that because that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

and shall stand afar off, for fear of her punishment, saying, 'Alas, Alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city: For at one hour is her judgment come.'

And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping, and wailing, and said, 'Alas, Alas, that great city wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea, by the reason of her costliness, for at one hour is she made desolate.'

And they verily for a few days nurtured us after their own pleasure; but he learneth us unto that which is profitable, that we might receive of his holiness.

they are also seven kings. Five are fallen, and one is, and another is not yet come. When he cometh he must continue a space.

If there remain but few years unto the trumpet year, he shall so count with him, and according unto his years give him again for his redemption,

Yea, and except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: But for the chosens' sake, those days shall be shortened.

And except that the Lord had should shorten those days, no man should be saved. But for the elects' sake, which he hath chosen, he hath shortened those days.

This say I, brethren: the time is short. It remaineth that they which have wives, be as though they had none:

and cast him into the bottomless pit, and he bound him, and set a seal on him, that he should deceive the people no more, till the thousand years were fulfilled. And after that he must be loosed for a little season.

For yet a very little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry:

"After a while ye shall not see me, and again after a while ye shall see me: For I go to the father."

Jesus perceived that they would ask him, and said unto them, "This is it that ye enquire of between yourselves, that I said, 'After a while ye shall not see me, and again after a while ye shall see me.'

in the which time ye shall rejoice, though now for a season - if need require - ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations,

The God of all grace - which called you unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus - shall his own self, after ye have suffered a little affliction, make you perfect: shall settle, strengthen, and establish you.

For our exceeding tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepareth an exceeding and eternal weight of glory unto us,

See ye not that it is hard at hand, that Lebanon shall be turned into a low field, and that the low field shall be as the wood?

For thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: yet once more will I shake heaven and earth, the sea, and the dry land:

And not long after, the younger son gathered all that he had together, and took his journey into a far country, and there he wasted his goods with riotous living.

Make not thy boast of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what may happen today.