Luke 13:24

Good News Translation (US Version)

“Do your best to go in through the narrow door; because many people will surely try to go in but will not be able.

Cross References

2 Peter 1:10

So then, my friends, try even harder to make God's call and his choice of you a permanent experience; if you do so, you will never abandon your faith.

Hebrews 4:11

Let us, then, do our best to receive that rest, so that no one of us will fail as they did because of their lack of faith.

Luke 21:36

Be on watch and pray always that you will have the strength to go safely through all those things that will happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Ezekiel 33:31

So my people crowd in to hear what you have to say, but they don't do what you tell them to do. Loving words are on their lips, but they continue their greedy ways.

John 6:27

Do not work for food that spoils; instead, work for the food that lasts for eternal life. This is the food which the Son of Man will give you, because God, the Father, has put his mark of approval on him.”

Proverbs 21:25

Lazy people who refuse to work are only killing themselves;

Romans 10:3

They have not known the way in which God puts people right with himself, and instead, they have tried to set up their own way; and so they did not submit themselves to God's way of putting people right.

Colossians 1:29

To get this done I toil and struggle, using the mighty strength which Christ supplies and which is at work in me.

John 7:34

You will look for me, but you will not find me, because you cannot go where I will be.”

Ecclesiastes 10:15

Only someone too stupid to find his way home would wear himself out with work.

John 8:21

Again Jesus said to them, “I will go away; you will look for me, but you will die in your sins. You cannot go where I am going.”

Isaiah 1:15

“When you lift your hands in prayer, I will not look at you. No matter how much you pray, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with blood.

Matthew 11:12

From the time John preached his message until this very day the Kingdom of heaven has suffered violent attacks, and violent men try to seize it.

Proverbs 14:6

Conceited people can never become wise, but intelligent people learn easily.

John 13:33

My children, I shall not be with you very much longer. You will look for me; but I tell you now what I told the Jewish authorities, ‘You cannot go where I am going.’

Luke 13:23

Someone asked him, “Sir, will just a few people be saved?” Jesus answered them,

Joshua 7:3

they reported back to Joshua: “There is no need for everyone to attack Ai. Send only about two or three thousand men. Don't send the whole army up there to fight; it is not a large city.”