Luke 13:24

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“The door to heaven is narrow. Try hard to enter it. Many people will want to enter there, but they will not be able to go in.

Cross References

2 Peter 1:10

My brothers and sisters, God called you and chose you to be his. Do your best to live in a way that shows you really are God’s called and chosen people. If you do all this, you will never fall.

Hebrews 4:11

So let us try as hard as we can to enter God’s place of rest. We must try hard so that none of us will be lost by following the example of those who refused to obey God.

Luke 21:36

So be ready all the time. Pray that you will be able to get through all these things that will happen and stand safe before the Son of Man.”

Ezekiel 33:31

So they come to you as if they were my people. They sit in front of you as if they were my people. They hear your words, but they will not do the things you say. They only want to do what feels good. They only want to cheat people and make more money.

John 6:27

But earthly food spoils and ruins. So don’t work to get that kind of food. But work to get the food that stays good and gives you eternal life. The Son of Man will give you that food. He is the only one qualified by God the Father to give it to you.”

Proverbs 21:25

Lazy people will cause their own destruction because they refuse to work.

Romans 10:3

They did not know the way that God makes people right with him. And they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.

Colossians 1:29

To do this, I work and struggle using the great strength that Christ gives me. That strength is working in my life.

John 7:34

You will look for me, but you will not find me. And you cannot come where I am.”

Ecclesiastes 10:15

Fools aren’t smart enough to find their way home, so they must work hard all their lives.

John 8:21

Again, Jesus said to the people, “I will leave you. You will look for me, but you will die in your sin. You cannot come where I am going.”

Isaiah 1:15

“When you raise your arms to pray to me, I will refuse to look at you. You will say more and more prayers, but I will refuse to listen because your hands are covered with blood.

Matthew 11:12

Since the time John the Baptizer came until now, God’s kingdom has been going forward strongly. And people have been trying to take control of it by force.

Proverbs 14:6

Anyone who makes fun of wisdom will never find it, but knowledge comes easily to those who understand its value.

John 13:33

Jesus said, “My children, I will be with you only a short time more. You will look for me, but I tell you now what I told the Jewish leaders: Where I am going you cannot come.

Luke 13:23

Someone said to him, “Lord, how many people will be saved? Only a few?” Jesus said,

Joshua 7:3

Later, the men came back to Joshua. They said, “Ai is a weak area. We will not need all of our people to defeat them. Send 2000 or 3000 men to fight there. There is no need to use the whole army. There are only a few men there to fight against us.”

John 5:4