Matthew 24:22 - The Scriptures 2009

²² “And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would be saved, but for the sake of the chosen ones those days shall be shortened.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² And if those days had not been shortened, no human being would endure and survive, but for the sake of the elect (God's chosen ones) those days will be shortened.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

Common English Bible

²² If that time weren’t shortened, nobody would be rescued. But for the sake of the ones whom God chose, that time will be cut short.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days shall be shortened.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.

Matthew 24:22 Cross References

Isaiah 6:13

“But still, there is a tenth part in it, and it shall again be for a burning, like a terebinth tree and like an oak, whose stump remains when it is cut down. The set-apart seed is its stump!”

Zechariah 13:8

And it shall be throughout all the soil,” declares יהוה, “that two thirds therein are cut off and die, and one third is left therein.

Zechariah 14:2

And I shall gather all the nations to battle against Yerushalayim. And the city shall be taken, the houses plundered, and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into exile, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Matthew 22:14

“For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Matthew 24:24

“For false messiahs and false prophets shall arise, and they shall show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

Matthew 24:31

And He shall send His messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

Mark 13:20

“And if the Master had not shortened those days, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen ones, whom He chose, He shortened the days.

Luke 18:7

“And shall Elohim not do right by all means to His own chosen ones who are crying out day and night to Him, and being patient over them?

Romans 9:11

Yet, before they were born or had done any good or evil – in order that the purpose of Elohim, according to choice, might stand, not of works but of Him who calls –

2 Timothy 2:10

So I endure through it all for the sake of the chosen, so that they too obtain deliverance which is in Messiah יהושע with everlasting esteem.

1 Peter 1:1

Kĕpha, an emissary of יהושע Messiah, to the chosen, strangers of the dispersion in Pontos, Galatia, Kappadokia, Asia, and Bithunia,