Luke 13:24

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““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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BSBPD

““Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Luke 13:24 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 32:25When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.
  2. 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.”
  3. Proverbs 1:24Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
  4. Proverbs 14:6A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.
  5. Proverbs 21:25The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.
  6. Ecclesiastes 10:15The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
  7. Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
  8. 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.”
  9. Ezekiel 33:31So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
  10. 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.
  11. Matthew 11:12From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subject to violence, and the violent lay claim to it.
  12. Mark 6:18For John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife!”
  13. Luke 21:36So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
  14. John 6:27Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”
  15. John 7:34You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
  16. John 8:21Again He said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”
  17. John 13:33Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
  18. Romans 9:31but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
  19. Romans 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
  20. 1 Corinthians 9:24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
  21. Philippians 2:12Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
  22. Colossians 1:29To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.
  23. Hebrews 4:11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
  24. 2 Peter 1:10Therefore, brothers, strive to make your calling and election sure. For if you practice these things you will never stumble,

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