20 Bible Verses about Entering Life

"Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.

"Enter through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the way is spacious that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. But the gate is narrow and the way is difficult that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.

Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire.

If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

"As I swore in my anger, 'They will never enter my rest!'"

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my anger, 'They will never enter my rest!'" And yet God's works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.

Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.

but to repeat the text cited earlier: "They will never enter my rest!"

Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.

Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell.

The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

who will not receive in this age a hundred times as much -- homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions -- and in the age to come, eternal life.

who will not receive many times more in this age -- and in the age to come, eternal life."

because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.