Luke 13:24

New Living Translation

“Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many will try to enter but will fail.

Cross References

Proverbs 14:6

A mocker seeks wisdom and never finds it, but knowledge comes easily to those with understanding.

Proverbs 21:25

Despite their desires, the lazy will come to ruin, for their hands refuse to work.

Ecclesiastes 10:15

Fools are so exhausted by a little work that they can’t even find their way home.

Isaiah 1:15

When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not look. Though you offer many prayers, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with the blood of innocent victims.

Ezekiel 33:31

So my people come pretending to be sincere and sit before you. They listen to your words, but they have no intention of doing what you say. Their mouths are full of lustful words, and their hearts seek only after money.

Matthew 11:12

And from the time John the Baptist began preaching until now, the Kingdom of Heaven has been forcefully advancing, and violent people are attacking it.

Luke 13:23

Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” He replied,

Luke 21:36

Keep alert at all times. And pray that you might be strong enough to escape these coming horrors and stand before the Son of Man.”

John 13:33

Dear children, I will be with you only a little longer. And as I told the Jewish leaders, you will search for me, but you can’t come where I am going.

John 6:27

But don’t be so concerned about perishable things like food. Spend your energy seeking the eternal life that the Son of Man can give you. For God the Father has given me the seal of his approval.”

John 7:34

You will search for me but not find me. And you cannot go where I am going.”

John 8:21

Later Jesus said to them again, “I am going away. You will search for me but will die in your sin. You cannot come where I am going.”

Romans 10:3

For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.

Colossians 1:29

That’s why I work and struggle so hard, depending on Christ’s mighty power that works within me.

Hebrews 4:11

So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.

Joshua 7:3

When they returned, they told Joshua, “There’s no need for all of us to go up there; it won’t take more than two or three thousand men to attack Ai. Since there are so few of them, don’t make all our people struggle to go up there.”

2 Peter 1:10

So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. Do these things, and you will never fall away.