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 \v 19 But woe to those who are with child and to those who are nursing infants in those days!
 \v 20 Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter or on a Sabbath.
 \v 21 For there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be again.
-\v 22 Unless those days are shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.
+\v 22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.
 
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 \v 23 Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'There is the Christ!' do not believe it.