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 13:24–25Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
• Prov 16:25There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
• John 14:6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
• John 10:9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
• Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
• Prov 9:6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
• Gal 5:24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
• Ezek 18:27–32Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
• Matt 3:2And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
• Matt 3:8Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
• 2 Cor 6:17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
• Rev 20:15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
• Matt 23:13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
• 1 Pet 4:17–18For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
• Eph 2:2–3Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
• Phil 3:19Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
• 2 Cor 4:4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
• Matt 18:2–3And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
• 1 Jn 5:19And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
• Matt 25:46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
• Acts 3:19Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
• 2 Th 1:8–9In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
• Rev 20:3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
• Isa 1:9Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
• Luke 14:33So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
• Rev 13:8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
• Rom 9:22What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
• Gen 6:12And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
• Rev 12:9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
• Acts 2:38–40Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
• Matt 25:41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
• Rom 3:9–19What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
• Ps 14:2–3The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
• Gen 6:5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
• Prov 7:27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
• Luke 9:33And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.

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