Mark 13:20 Cross References - Living_Oracles

²⁰ Had the Lord assigned it a long duration, no soul could escape; but for the sake of the people whom he had elected, he has made its duration the shorter.

²² For, if the time were protracted, no soul could survive; but for the sake of the elect, the time will be short.

⁵ So, then, even at this present time, there is a remnant according to an election by favor. ⁶ And if by favor, it is no more of works: otherwise favor is no more favor. ⁷ What then? The thing Israel earnestly seeks, that he has not obtained. But the election has obtained it, and the rest are blinded.

²³ And even they, if they continued not in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴ For if you were cut off from the olive, by nature wild, and were contrary to nature, grafted into the good olive; how much rather shall those who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive?

²⁸ With respect to the gospel, indeed, they are enemies, on your account: but with respect to the election, they are beloved on account of the fathers. ²⁹ For the free gifts and calling of God are without repentance. ³⁰ Besides, as you, in times past, have disobeyed God, yet now have obtained mercy through their disobedience; ³¹ even so these, also, have no disobeyed, that through your mercy, they also may obtain mercy. ³² For God has shut up together all for disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.