“Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Matthew 24 contains 51 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.