Luke 13:24
“Struggle to enter through the narrow door, because, I say to you, many will want to enter, but will not be able to enter.
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23Someone said to him, “Lord, are only a few people to be saved?” So he said to them,
Cross References
Joshua 7:3When they returned to Joshua, they said to him, “Do not send all the people up to Ai. Send only two or three thousand men to go up and attack Ai. Do not make all the people labor in battle, for they are few in number.”
Proverbs 14:6A mocker seeks wisdom and there is none, 1 but knowledge comes easy to the one who is discerning. 1
Ecclesiastes 10:15The toil of fools wearies them, 2 so that they do not even know the road to town. 1
Isaiah 58:2Yet they seek me daily and delight in the knowledge of my ways, 1 like a nation that practiced righteousness and did not abandon the law of their God. 1 They ask me for righteous judgments; they take pleasure in the thought of God coming near. 1
Matthew 7:13Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many people who go through it.
Mark 6:18For John told 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 →