Mark 13:20

If God doesn't cut short these days, no one will survive. However, for the sake of those God has chosen, he has cut them short.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

19For these will be days of trouble like never before since the beginning of God's creation until now, and they won't ever come again.

21So if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah,’ or ‘Look, there he is,’ don't believe it.

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Cross References

Isaiah 1:9If the Lord Almighty hadn't let a few of us survive, we would have become like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 65:8This is what the Lord says: It's like when there's a bit of juice left in a bunch of grapes and people say, “Don't get rid of it all; there's still some good in it.” I'll do the same for my servants—I won't destroy them all.

Matthew 24:22Unless those days are cut short, nobody will be saved, but for the sake of the chosen those days will be cut short.

Romans 11:23If they no longer refuse to trust in God, they can be grafted in as well, for God is able to graft them back in again.

Matthew Henry on Mark 13:15-24

The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. 14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judæa flee to the mountains: 15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house: 16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment. 17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give… Read the whole commentary →

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