Acts 17:23
For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.'What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
Matthew 24:22
And if those days had not been shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.
Mark 13:20
And if the Lord had not shortened those days, no flesh would be saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
Romans 9:6
But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel,
Romans 11:7
What then? Israel did not obtain what it sought. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,
Galatians 4:8-9
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods.
Ephesians 2:12
remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in the passion of lust like the heathen, who do not know God;