Matthew 24:22

for unless the time was to be short, very few could escape, but for the sake of the converts the time shall be short.

Matthew 24:24

for there shall arise false Messiahs, and false prophets, and shall shew such astonishing miracles and prodigies, as to deceive, if that can do it, the very converts themselves.

Matthew 24:31

and he shall send his messengers, who with the shrill sound of a trumpet, shall gather together his select from the four winds, from one end of the heaven to the other.

Matthew 22:14

thus many are called, but few are converted.

Mark 13:20

so that if the Lord should suffer it to last, no man could escape: but he will not suffer the time to last long, out of regard to his elect.

Luke 18:7

and will not God avenge his own elect, who cry to him night and day? will he delay their cause?

Romans 9:11

for before they were born, and had done neither good or evil, that the distinction which God had purposed to make might appear to be, not in consideration of their actions, but of his own free call,

Romans 11:25-31

I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this secret, (for fear you should presume too much on your selves) that blindness has fallen upon a part of Israel, until the time when the Gentiles shall be fully come in.

2 Timothy 2:10

I therefore bear with every thing for the sake of the converts, that they may obtain that salvation, which Jesus Christ has procur'd us, even eternal glory.

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And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

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Mark 13:20
so that if the Lord should suffer it to last, no man could escape: but he will not suffer the time to last long, out of regard to his elect.