23 Bible Verses about A Short Time

although you do not have the slightest knowledge of tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? It is really nothing but a mist which appears for a little while and then disappears.

So celebrate your triumph, you heavens and you who live in them! Alas for the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you in a great rage, since he knows that his time is short!"

Then he took Him up and in a second of time he showed Him all the kingdoms of the world.

So they kept saying, "What does He mean by saying, '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 completely and quickly execute His sentence on the earth."

For, although I did cause you sorrow by that letter, I do not now regret it; although I did regret it then. I see that the letter caused you sorrow only for a time.

But we did not for a moment yield them submission, in order that the truth of the good news might prevail for you.

They will stand a long way off for fear of her torture, saying, 'Alas! Alas for the great city, for Babylon the mighty city, because in a single day 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 from her great wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.'

For they disciplined us only a short time, as it seemed proper to them, but He does it for our good, in order that we may share His holy character.

There are also seven kings; five have fallen, one is on the throne, the other has not yet come, and when he does he must stay but a little while,

And if those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's chosen 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 the people chosen as His own He has cut them short.

I mean this, brothers. The time has been cut short. For the future, men who have wives should live as though they had none,

Then he hurled him into the abyss, closed it, and sealed it over him, to keep him from leading the nations astray anymore, until the thousand years are at an end; after that he must be let loose a little while.

"In just a very little while, the Coming One will come and not delay;

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

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him a question, and so He said to them, "Are you inquiring of one another about this saying of mine, 'In just a little while you will not see me, and yet in just a little while after you will see me again'?

In such a hope keep on rejoicing, although for a little while you must be sorrow-stricken with various trials,

And God, the giver of every spiritual blessing, 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, firm, and strong,

For this slight and momentary sorrow continues to accumulate for me a solid and eternal glory far beyond any comparison,

Not many days after that, the younger son got together all he had and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered all his property by living in dissipation.