Matthew 7:14

The gate is narrow and the road hard that lead to life, and few find it. True discipleship is costly and not the path of the majority.

Cross-references · 24

• Luke 13:23–30One said to him, “Lord, are they few who are saved?” He said to them,
• Matt 22:14For many are called, but few chosen.”
• Matt 16:24–25Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
• Rom 12:2Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
• Isa 35:8A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
• Prov 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice;
• Mark 8:34He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
• Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
• John 15:18–20If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
• Isa 30:21and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
• John 16:33I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
• Prov 4:26–27Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
• Jer 6:16Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
• Matt 20:16So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”
• 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;
• Luke 12:32Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
• 1 Pet 3:20–21who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
• Isa 57:14He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”
• Rom 9:27–29Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;
• Matt 25:1–12“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
• 1 Th 3:2–5and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;
• Rom 11:5–6Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
• Rom 9:32Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
• John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

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