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 7:13–14Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
• 2 Pet 1:10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
• 1 Cor 9:24–27Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
• Heb 4:11Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
• Luke 21:36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
• Phil 2:12–13Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
• Ezek 33:31And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
• Prov 21:25The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
• Rom 10:3For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
• John 6:27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
• Col 1:29Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
• Prov 1:24–28Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
• Isa 58:2–4Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
• John 7:34Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.
• Eccl 10:15The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
• Isa 1:15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
• Prov 14:6A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
• Mark 6:18–20For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother’s wife.
• Rom 9:31–33But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
• John 8:21Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
• Gen 32:25–26And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
• Matt 11:12And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
• John 13:33Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.

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