Isaiah 65:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Thus says the Lord: As the wine is found in the cluster, and they say, “Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,” so I will do for my servants’ sake and not destroy them all.

Cross References

Genesis 18:26

And the Lord said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will forgive the whole place for their sake.”

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 10:21

A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

Isaiah 10:22

For though your people, O Israel, were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, an overwhelming verdict.

Isaiah 48:9

For my name’s sake I defer my anger; for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, so that I may not cut you off.

Isaiah 6:13

Even if a tenth part remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak whose stump remains standing when it is felled.” (The holy seed is its stump.)

Jeremiah 30:11

For I am with you, says the Lord, to save you; I will make an end of all the nations among which I scattered you, but of you I will not make an end. I will chastise you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

Joel 2:14

Who knows whether he will not turn and relent and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?

Matthew 24:22

And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved, but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Mark 13:20

And if the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would be saved, but for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he has cut short those days.