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“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
• Prov 16:25There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
• John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
• John 10:9I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
• Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
• Prov 9:6Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”
• Gal 5:24Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
• Ezek 18:27–32Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
• Matt 3:2“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
• Matt 3:8Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
• 2 Cor 6:17Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
• Rev 20:15If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
• Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
• 1 Pet 4:17–18For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?
• Eph 2:2–3in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
• Phil 3:19whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
• 2 Cor 4:4in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
• Matt 18:2–3Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them,
• 1 Jn 5:19We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
• Matt 25:46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
• Acts 3:19“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
• 2 Th 1:8–9giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
• Rev 20:3and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
• Isa 1:9Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah.
• Luke 14:33So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.
• Rev 13:8All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
• Rom 9:22What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
• Gen 6:12God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
• Rev 12:9The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
• Acts 2:38–40Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
• Matt 25:41Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
• Rom 3:9–19What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
• Ps 14:2–3Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
• Gen 6:5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
• Prov 7:27Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
• Luke 9:33As they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah,” not knowing what he said.

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