1 Corinthians 10:11

⁴For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

¹¹Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

¹⁸Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

¹⁰or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

⁵Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

²³Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

³⁷“In a very little while, he who comes will come and will not wait.

²⁵not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

²⁹But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;