Matthew 7:13

Enter through the narrow gate, since the wide road leads to destruction and many take it. Jesus calls for deliberate commitment to the way of life rather than drifting with the crowd.

Cross-references · 36

• Luke 13:24–25“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
• Prov 16:25There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
• John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
• John 10:9I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.
• Isa 55:7Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
• Prov 9:6Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
• Gal 5:24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
• Ezek 18:27–32But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.
• Matt 3:2and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
• Matt 3:8Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.
• 2 Cor 6:17“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
• Rev 20:15And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
• Matt 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
• 1 Pet 4:17–18For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?
• Eph 2:2–3in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
• Phil 3:19Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
• 2 Cor 4:4The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
• Matt 18:2–3Jesus invited a little child to stand among them.
• 1 Jn 5:19We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
• Matt 25:46And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
• Acts 3:19Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
• 2 Th 1:8–9in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
• Rev 20:3And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the thousand years were complete. After that, he must be released for a brief period of time.
• Isa 1:9Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
• Luke 14:33In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
• Rev 13:8And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.
• Rom 9:22What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
• Gen 6:12And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.
• Rev 12:9And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
• Acts 2:38–40Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
• Matt 25:41Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
• Rom 3:9–19What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
• Ps 14:2–3The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.
• Gen 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
• Prov 7:27Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
• Luke 9:33As Moses and Elijah were leaving, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” (He did not know what he was saying.)

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