Luke 13:24
“Try very hard to enter the narrow doorway, because I tell you that many will try to go in, and won't succeed.
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23Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” Jesus replied,
Cross References
Joshua 7:3When they returned they told Joshua, “The whole army isn't needed. Two or three thousand men is enough to go and attack Ai. Don't bother sending everyone—there's only a few of them.”
Proverbs 14:6It's pointless for a scoffer to look for wisdom, but knowledge comes easily to someone who understands.
Ecclesiastes 10:15Work makes fools so worn out they can't achieve anything.
Isaiah 58:2Every day they come to me, pleased to know my ways as if they were a nation that does what is right and follows the laws of their God! They ask me to treat them right; they like to be close to their God.
Matthew 7:13Enter by the narrow entrance. For the entrance is wide, and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and many travel that way.
Mark 6:18John had been saying to Herod, “It's against the law to marry 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 →