Luke 13:24
“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
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In Context
23“Lord,” someone asked Him, “will only a few people be saved?” Jesus answered,
Cross References
Joshua 7:3On returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.”
Proverbs 14:6A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.
Ecclesiastes 10:15The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
Isaiah 58:2For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
Matthew 7:13Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
Mark 6:18For John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife!”
Matthew Henry on Luke 13:24-31
Curiosity Checked; The Doom of Sinful Professors. 23 Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, 24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. 25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: 26 Then shall ye begin to say, We… Read the whole commentary →