Acts 17:23
For as I was going here and there and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' So it is about the Being whom you are in ignorance already worshiping that I am telling you.
Matthew 24:22
And if those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's chosen people those days will be cut short.
Mark 13:20
If the Lord had not cut those days short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of the people chosen as His own He has cut them short.
Romans 9:6
But it is not that God's word has failed. For not everybody that is descended from Israel really belongs to Israel,
Romans 11:7
What are we then to conclude? Israel has failed to obtain what it is still in search for, but His chosen ones have obtained it. The rest have become insensible to it,
Galatians 4:8-9
But at that former time, as you did not know the true God, you were slaves to gods that do not really exist,
Ephesians 2:12
At that time you were without any connection with Christ; you were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the sacred compacts made by God's promise, with no hope, and no God in the world.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not out of evil passions as the heathen do who do not know God;