Luke 13:24

Jesus urges striving to enter by the narrow door, warning many will try and fail. Entering the kingdom demands earnest, wholehearted response.

Cross-references · 23

• Matt 7:13–14“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.
• 2 Pet 1:10Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
• 1 Cor 9:24–27Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
• Heb 4:11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
• Luke 21:36Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
• Phil 2:12–13So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
• Ezek 33:31They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
• Prov 21:25The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
• Rom 10:3For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
• John 6:27Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
• Col 1:29for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
• Prov 1:24–28Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
• Isa 58:2–4Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.
• John 7:34You will seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come.”
• Eccl 10:15The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.
• Isa 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
• Prov 14:6A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
• Mark 6:18–20For John said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
• Rom 9:31–33but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
• John 8:21Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”
• Gen 32:25–26When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained, as he wrestled.
• Matt 11:12From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
• John 13:33Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.

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