Luke 13:24

New Century Version

“Try hard to enter through the narrow door, because many people will try to enter there, but they will not be able.

Cross References

Proverbs 14:6

Those who make fun of wisdom look for it and do not find it, but knowledge comes easily to those with understanding.

Proverbs 21:25

Lazy people’s desire for sleep will kill them, because they refuse to work.

Ecclesiastes 10:15

Work wears fools out; they don’t even know how to get home.

Isaiah 1:15

When you raise your arms to me in prayer, I will refuse to look at you. Even if you say many prayers, I will not listen to you, because your hands are full of blood.

Ezekiel 33:31

So they come to you in crowds as if they were really ready to listen. They sit in front of you as if they were my people and hear your words, but they will not obey them. With their mouths they tell me they love me, but their hearts desire their selfish profits.

Matthew 11:12

Since the time John the Baptist came until now, the kingdom of heaven has been going forward in strength, and people have been trying to take it by force.

Luke 13:23

Someone said to Jesus, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” Jesus said,

Luke 21:36

So be ready all the time. Pray that you will be strong enough to escape all these things that will happen and that you will be able to stand before the Son of Man.”

John 13:33

Jesus said, “My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and what I told the Jews, I tell you now: Where I am going you cannot come.

John 5:4

Sometimes an angel of the Lord came down to the pool and stirred up the water. After the angel did this, the first person to go into the pool was healed from any sickness he had].

John 6:27

Don’t work for the food that spoils. Work for the food that stays good always and gives eternal life. The Son of Man will give you this food, because on him God the Father has put his power.”

John 7:34

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

John 8:21

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

Romans 10:3

Because they did not know the way that God makes people right with him, 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 Christ’s great strength that works so powerfully in me.

Hebrews 4:11

Let us try as hard as we can to enter God’s rest so that no one will fail by following the example of those who refused to obey.

Joshua 7:3

Later they came back to Joshua and said, “There are only a few people in Ai, so we will not need all our people to defeat them. Send only two or three thousand men to fight. There is no need to send all of our people.”

2 Peter 1:10

My brothers and sisters, try hard to be certain that you really are called and chosen by God. If you do all these things, you will never fall.