Acts 17:23
for, passing through, and considering your objects of worship, I found also an altar on which had been inscribed, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What, therefore, in ignorance ye worship, this I declare to you.
Matthew 24:22
And, unless those days should be shortened, no flesh could be saved: but, for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.
Mark 13:20
And, unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would have been saved; but, for the elect's sake, whom He chose, He shortened the days.
Romans 9:6
But it is not as though the word of God has failed: for they are not all Israel, who are of Israel;
Romans 11:7
What, then? What Israel is seeking for, this he did not obtain; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened;
Galatians 4:8-9
But then, indeed, when ye knew not God, ye served those which by nature are no gods;
Ephesians 2:12
that at that time ye were apart from Christ, alienated 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 passion of desire, even as the gentiles, who know not God;