KJV King James Version
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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Matthew 24:22
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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.
WEB World English Bible
Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
ASV American Standard Version
And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.
Surrounding context — Matthew 24
19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here [is] Christ, or there; believe [it] not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
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καὶG2532 · kaiandεἰG1487 · eiifμὴG3361 · mēnotἐκολοβώθησανG2856 · koloboōto shortenαἱG3588 · hothe/this/whoἡμέραιG2250 · hēmeradayἐκεῖναι,G1565 · ekeinosthatοὐκG3756 · ounoἂνG302 · anifἐσώθηG4982 · sōzōto saveπᾶσαG3956 · pasallσάρξ·G4561 · sarxfleshδιὰG1223 · diathrough/because ofδὲG1161 · dethenτοὺςG3588 · hothe/this/whoἐκλεκτοὺςG1588 · eklektosselectκολοβωθήσονταιG2856 · koloboōto shortenαἱG3588 · hothe/this/whoἡμέραιG2250 · hēmeradayἐκεῖναι.¶G1565 · ekeinosthat
Cross-references
Mark 13:20And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.2 Timothy 2:10Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.Matthew 24:24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect.Matthew 24:31And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.Luke 18:7And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?Matthew 22:14For many are called, but few [are] chosen.Zechariah 14:2For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.Romans 11:25-31For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.Isaiah 65:8-9Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and [one] saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing [is] in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.Zechariah 13:8And it shall come to pass, [that] in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off [and] die; but the third shall be left therein.Romans 9:11(For [the children] being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)Isaiah 6:13But yet in it [shall be] a tenth, and [it] shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance [is] in them, when they cast [their leaves: so] the holy seed [shall be] the substance thereof.
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