Acts 17:23
For as I passed through, and observed your objects of worship, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore you worship as unknown, this I declare to you.
Matthew 24:22
And unless those days were shortened no flesh would be saved: but on account of the elect those days shall be shortened.
Mark 13:20
And unless the Lord had shortened those days no flesh would be saved; but for the elects' sake, whom he has chosen, he has shortened the days.
Romans 9:6
Not that the word of God has failed of being accomplished. For all are not Israel who are of Israel;
Romans 11:7
What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain, but the election obtained; and the rest were hardened,??8 as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear??o this day.
Galatians 4:8-9
But formerly, not knowing God you served beings which are not really Gods;
Ephesians 2:12
that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the polity of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world;
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not with inordinate desires like the gentiles who know not God,