Luke 13:24
"You must strain every nerve to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in, and will not succeed,
Matthew 7:13-14
"Go in at the narrow gate. For the road that leads to destruction is broad and spacious, and there are many who go in by it.
Matthew 11:12
But from the time of John the Baptist until now men have been taking the Kingdom of Heaven by storm and impetuously crowding into it.
Mark 6:18-20
John said to Herod, "It is not right for you to be living with your brother's wife."
Luke 21:36
But you must be vigilant and always pray that you may succeed in escaping all this that is going to happen, and in standing in the presence of the Son of Man."
John 6:27
You must not work for the food that perishes, but for that which lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has authorized him to do so."
John 7:34
You will look for me and you will not find me, and you will not be able to go where I shall be."
John 8:21
Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in the midst of your sin. You cannot come where I am going."
John 13:33
My children, I am to be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but, as I said to the Jews, where I am going you cannot follow,
Romans 9:31-33
while Israel, straining after a law that should bring uprightness, did not come up to it.
Romans 10:3
For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win.
Philippians 2:12-13
So, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient, with reverence and awe make every effort to insure your salvation, not simply as though I were with you, but all the more because I am away.
Colossians 1:29
That is what I am working for, fighting with all the energy with which he so mightily endows me.
Hebrews 4:11
Let us, therefore, make every effort to be admitted to that Rest, so that none of us may fail through such disobedience as theirs.
2 Peter 1:10
Therefore, brothers, make all the greater efforts to make God's call and choice of you certain. For if you have these qualities, you will never stumble,