Luke 13:24
“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.
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Luke 13:24
“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.
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Luke 13:25
When once the master of the house has risen up and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
Luke 13:26
Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’
Luke 13:27
He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’
Luke 13:28
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.
Proverbs 1:24
Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
Proverbs 1:25
but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;
Proverbs 1:26
I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,
Proverbs 1:27
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.
Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me,
Psalms 50:22
“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
Proverbs 1:31
Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
Zephaniah 2:2
before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.
Matthew 7:23
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
Matthew 25:11
Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’
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Matthew 7:13
“Enter in by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter in by it.
Matthew 7:14
How narrow is the gate and the way is restricted that leads to life! There are few who find it.
Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few chosen.”
1 Peter 3:20
who before were disobedient when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
Revelation 3:4
Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
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Luke 13:23
One said to him, “Lord, are they few who are saved?” He said to them,
Acts 1:6
Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?”
John 21:21
Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”
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Colossians 1:29
for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
1 Corinthians 9:24
Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
1 Corinthians 9:25
Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
1 Corinthians 9:26
I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
Philippians 3:13
Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before,
Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 2:12
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
Romans 15:30
Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
Colossians 2:1
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
Revelation 3:11
I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
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Luke 16:16
“The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
Matthew 11:12
From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
John 6:27
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
Hebrews 4:11
Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
Matthew 6:33
But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
2 Peter 1:10
Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
Psalms 63:8
My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
Song of Solomon 3:2
I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
Mark 13:37
What I tell you, I tell all: Watch!”
Colossians 3:1
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
Hebrews 6:11
We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
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1 Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
Hebrews 12:4
You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
Ephesians 6:12
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Philippians 1:27
Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
John 18:36
Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”
2 Timothy 2:5
Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
James 1:12
Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him.
1 Peter 5:4
When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.
Revelation 2:10
Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
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Isaiah 55:6
Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
2 Corinthians 6:2
For he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
Hebrews 3:7
Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
Hebrews 3:8
don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
Hebrews 3:13
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Jeremiah 29:13
You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
Amos 5:15
Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
Matthew 7:7
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
Matthew 7:8
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
Luke 11:9
“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
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Hebrews 12:17
For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
Matthew 25:12
But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’
John 7:34
You will seek me and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”
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Genesis 32:26
The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
Genesis 32:27
He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob”.
Genesis 32:28
He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
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Proverbs 6:4
Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
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Matthew 18:3
and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Luke 14:33
So therefore, whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.
John 10:9
I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture.
Proverbs 9:6
Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”
Ezekiel 18:30
“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity will not be your ruin.
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, house of Israel?
Ezekiel 18:32
For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!
Matthew 5:20
For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Luke 13:1
Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
Luke 13:3
I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
Luke 13:5
I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”
John 3:5
Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.
Acts 2:38
Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 3:19
“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
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Romans 9:31
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
Romans 9:32
Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
Romans 10:3
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
Romans 11:7
What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
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1 Corinthians 12:31
But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.
1 Corinthians 14:1
Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:12
So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.
2 Timothy 2:15
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
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2 Chronicles 33:11
Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 33:12
When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Jeremiah 2:27
who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face, but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’
Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
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Proverbs 6:5
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
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Matthew 21:31
Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.
Hebrews 11:6
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
2 Peter 1:5
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
2 Peter 1:11
For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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