Acts 17:23
For as I was going about, looking at your sacred shrines, I came upon an altar with this inscription--'To an Unknown God.' What, therefore, you worship in ignorance, that I am now proclaiming to you.
Matthew 24:22
And had not those days been limited, not a single soul would escape; but for the sake of 'God's People' a limit will be put to them.
Mark 13:20
And, had not the Lord put a limit to those days, not a single soul would escape; but, for the sake of God's own chosen People, he did limit them.
Romans 9:6
Not that God's Word has failed. For it is not all who are descended from Israel who are true Israelites;
Romans 11:7
What follows from this? Why, that Israel as a nation failed to secure what it was seeking, while those whom God selected did secure it.
Galatians 4:8-9
Yet formerly, in your ignorance of God, you became slaves to 'gods' which were no gods.
Ephesians 2:12
Remember that you were at that time far from Christ; you were shut out from the citizenship of Israel; you were strangers to the Covenants founded on God's Promise; you were in the world without hope and without God.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
And not for the mere gratification of his passions, like the Gentiles who know nothing of God;