1 Corinthians 7:29
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29 What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short.(A) From now on those who have wives should live as if they do not;
1 John 2:17
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Romans 13:11-12
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The Day Is Near
11 And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come(A) for you to wake up from your slumber,(B) because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The night is nearly over; the day is almost here.(C) So let us put aside the deeds of darkness(D) and put on the armor(E) of light.
1 Corinthians 7:31
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31 those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.(A)
James 4:13-16
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Boasting About Tomorrow
13 Now listen,(A) you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”(B) 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.(C) 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will,(D) we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.(E)
Hebrews 13:13-14
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13 Let us, then, go to him(A) outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.(B) 14 For here we do not have an enduring city,(C) but we are looking for the city that is to come.(D)
2 Peter 3:8-9
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8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.(A) 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise,(B) as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient(C) with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.(D)
1 Peter 4:7
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Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
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1 Peter 1:24
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24 For,
“All people are like grass,
and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
Ecclesiastes 12:7-8
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Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 12:8 Or the leader of the assembly; also in verses 9 and 10
Psalm 103:15-16
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Psalm 39:4-7
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4 “Show me, Lord, my life’s end
and the number of my days;(A)
let me know how fleeting(B) my life is.(C)
5 You have made my days(D) a mere handbreadth;
the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath,(E)
even those who seem secure.[a]
6 “Surely everyone goes around(F) like a mere phantom;(G)
in vain they rush about,(H) heaping up wealth(I)
without knowing whose it will finally be.(J)
7 “But now, Lord, what do I look for?
My hope is in you.(K)
Footnotes
- Psalm 39:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 11.
Isaiah 40:6-8
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6 A voice says, “Cry out.”
And I said, “What shall I cry?”
“All people are like grass,(A)
and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.
7 The grass withers(B) and the flowers fall,
because the breath(C) of the Lord blows(D) on them.
Surely the people are grass.
8 The grass withers and the flowers(E) fall,
but the word(F) of our God endures(G) forever.(H)”
Psalm 90:5-10
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5 Yet you sweep people away(A) in the sleep of death—
they are like the new grass of the morning:
6 In the morning it springs up new,
but by evening it is dry and withered.(B)
7 We are consumed by your anger
and terrified by your indignation.
8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins(C) in the light of your presence.(D)
9 All our days pass away under your wrath;
we finish our years with a moan.(E)
10 Our days may come to seventy years,(F)
or eighty,(G) if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,(H)
for they quickly pass, and we fly away.(I)
Isaiah 24:1-2
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The Lord’s Devastation of the Earth
24 See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth(A)
and devastate(B) it;
he will ruin its face
and scatter(C) its inhabitants—
2 it will be the same
for priest as for people,(D)
for the master as for his servant,
for the mistress as for her servant,
for seller as for buyer,(E)
for borrower as for lender,
for debtor as for creditor.(F)
Ecclesiastes 9:10
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10 Whatever(A) your hand finds to do, do it with all your might,(B) for in the realm of the dead,(C) where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.(D)
Ecclesiastes 6:12
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12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days(A) they pass through like a shadow?(B) Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?
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