"And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be …" — Matthew 24:22

Matthew 24:22 · KJV

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

— Matthew 24:22

Verse 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.

Verse 23

Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here {is} Christ, or there; believe {it} not.

Matthew 24 — Context

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

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

Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here {is} Christ, or there; believe {it} not.

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.

Cross References

Mark 13:20

And 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 2:10

Therefore 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 24:24

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.

Matthew 24:31

And 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. {with...: or, with a trumpet, and a great voice}

Luke 18:7

And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

Matthew 22:14

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in {his} talk.

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;)

Zechariah 14:2

For 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.