Matthew 7:13

Good News Translation

“Go in through the narrow gate, because the gate to hell is wide and the road that leads to it is easy, and there are many who travel it.

Cross References

Genesis 6:12

God looked at the world and saw that it was evil, for the people were all living evil lives.

Genesis 6:5

When the Lord saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time,

Proverbs 16:25

What you think is the right road may lead to death.

Proverbs 7:27

If you go to her house, you are on the way to the world of the dead. It is a shortcut to death.

Proverbs 9:6

Leave the company of ignorant people, and live. Follow the way of knowledge.”

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord Almighty had not let some of the people survive, Jerusalem would have been totally destroyed, just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.

Isaiah 35:8

There will be a highway there, called “The Road of Holiness.” No sinner will ever travel that road; no fools will mislead those who follow it.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked leave their way of life and change their way of thinking. Let them turn to the Lord, our God; he is merciful and quick to forgive.

Matthew 23:13

“How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You lock the door to the Kingdom of heaven in people's faces, but you yourselves don't go in, nor do you allow in those who are trying to enter!

Matthew 25:41

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Away from me, you that are under God's curse! Away to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels!

Matthew 25:46

These, then, will be sent off to eternal punishment, but the righteous will go to eternal life.”

Matthew 3:2

“Turn away from your sins,” he said, “because the Kingdom of heaven is near!”

Matthew 3:8

Do those things that will show that you have turned from your sins.

Matthew 7:14

But the gate to life is narrow and the way that leads to it is hard, and there are few people who find it.

Luke 14:33

In the same way,” concluded Jesus, “none of you can be my disciple unless you give up everything you have.

Luke 9:33

As the men were leaving Jesus, Peter said to him, “Master, how good it is that we are here! We will make three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” (He did not really know what he was saying.)

John 10:9

I am the gate. Those who come in by me will be saved; they will come in and go out and find pasture.

John 14:6

Jesus answered him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.

Acts 3:19

Repent, then, and turn to God, so that he will forgive your sins. If you do,

Romans 9:22

And the same is true of what God has done. He wanted to show his anger and to make his power known. But he was very patient in enduring those who were the objects of his anger, who were doomed to destruction.

2 Corinthians 4:4

They do not believe, because their minds have been kept in the dark by the evil god of this world. He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them, the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

2 Corinthians 6:17

And so the Lord says, “You must leave them and separate yourselves from them. Have nothing to do with what is unclean, and I will accept you.

Galatians 5:24

And those who belong to Christ Jesus have put to death their human nature with all its passions and desires.

Philippians 3:19

They are going to end up in hell, because their god is their bodily desires. They are proud of what they should be ashamed of, and they think only of things that belong to this world.

1 John 5:19

We know that we belong to God even though the whole world is under the rule of the Evil One.

Revelation 12:9

The huge dragon was thrown out—that ancient serpent, named the Devil, or Satan, that deceived the whole world. He was thrown down to earth, and all his angels with him.

Revelation 13:8

All people living on earth will worship it, except those whose names were written before the creation of the world in the book of the living which belongs to the Lamb that was killed.

Revelation 20:15

Those who did not have their name written in the book of the living were thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 20:3

The angel threw him into the abyss, locked it, and sealed it, so that he could not deceive the nations any more until the thousand years were over. After that he must be set loose for a little while.