Mark 13:20 Cross References

Mark 13:20

20: In fact, unless the Lord shortens that time of calamity, the entire human race will be destroyed. But for the sake of his chosen ones he has shortened those days.

Isaiah 65:8

  1. "But I will not destroy them all," says the LORD. "For just as good grapes are found among a cluster of bad ones (and someone will say, `Don't throw them all away--there are some good grapes there!'), so I will not destroy all Israel. For I still have true servants there.
  2. I will preserve a remnant of the people of Israel and of Judah to possess my land. Those I choose will inherit it and serve me there.

Matthew 24:22

  1. In fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, the entire human race will be destroyed. But it will be shortened for the sake of God's chosen ones.

Zechariah 13:8

  1. Two-thirds of the people in the land will be cut off and die, says the LORD. But a third will be left in the land.
  2. I will bring that group through the fire and make them pure, just as gold and silver are refined and purified by fire. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, `These are my people,' and they will say, `The LORD is our God.'"

Romans 11:28

  1. Many of the Jews are now enemies of the Good News. But this has been to your benefit, for God has given his gifts to you Gentiles. Yet the Jews are still his chosen people because of his promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  2. For God's gifts and his call can never be withdrawn.
  3. Once, you Gentiles were rebels against God, but when the Jews refused his mercy, God was merciful to you instead.
  4. And now, in the same way, the Jews are the rebels, and God's mercy has come to you. But someday they, too, will share in God's mercy.
  5. For God has imprisoned all people in their own disobedience so he could have mercy on everyone.

Romans 11:23

  1. And if the Jews turn from their unbelief, God will graft them back into the tree again. He has the power to do it.
  2. For if God was willing to take you who were, by nature, branches from a wild olive tree and graft you into his own good tree--a very unusual thing to do--he will be far more eager to graft the Jews back into the tree where they belong.

Isaiah 1:9

  1. If the LORD Almighty had not spared a few of us, we would have been wiped out as completely as Sodom and Gomorrah.

Romans 11:5

  1. It is the same today, for not all the Jews have turned away from God. A few are being saved as a result of God's kindness in choosing them.
  2. And if they are saved by God's kindness, then it is not by their good works. For in that case, God's wonderful kindness would not be what it really is--free and undeserved.
  3. So this is the situation: Most of the Jews have not found the favor of God they are looking for so earnestly. A few have--the ones God has chosen--but the rest were made unresponsive.

Isaiah 6:13

  1. Even if only a tenth--a remnant--survive, it will be invaded again and burned. Israel will remain a stump, like a tree that is cut down, but the stump will be a holy seed that will grow again."
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