Acts 17:23
Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance.
Matthew 24:22
Had not those days been cut short, not a soul would be saved alive; however, for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.
Mark 13:20
Had not the Lord cut short those days, not a soul would be saved alive; but he has cut them short for the sake of the elect whom he has chosen.
Romans 9:6
It is not, of course, as if God's word had failed! Far from it! 'Israel' does not mean everyone who belongs to Israel;
Romans 11:7
Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it ??8 as it is written, God has given them a spirit of torpor, eyes that see not, ears that hear not ??down to this very day.
Galatians 4:8-9
In those days, when you were ignorant of God, you were in servitude to gods who are really no gods at all;
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God ??6 no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them.