And if the Lord had not made the time short, no flesh would have been kept from destruction; but because of the saints he has made the time short.
If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.
And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down the holy seed is the broken end.
And if those days had not been made short there would have been no salvation for any, but because of the saints those days will be made short.
For in those days there will be sorrow, such as there has not been from the time when God made the world till now, and will not ever be again.
And then if any man says to you, See, here is Christ; or, See, there; have no faith in it: