Matthew 7:13
Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
14How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!
Cross References
Genesis 6:12And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth),
Proverbs 7:27Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.
Proverbs 16:25There is a way that seemeth to a man right: and the ends thereof lead to death.
Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.
Matthew 3:2And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Do penance... Paenitentiam agite. Which word, according to the use of the scriptures and the holy fathers, does not only signify repentance and amendment of life, but also punishing past sins by fasting, and such like penitential exercises.
Matthew 18:2And Jesus, calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 7:13-15
The Sermon on the Mount. 12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Our Lord Jesus here presses upon us that righteousness towards men which is an essential branch of true… Read the whole commentary →