Luke 13:24
Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.
Matthew 7:13-14
Enter in through the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and spacious the road, which leadeth to perdition, and they are many who enter that way:
Matthew 11:12
But from the days of John the Baptist unto the present, the kingdom of heaven is assaulted by violence, and the invaders forcibly seize upon it.
Mark 6:18-20
For John said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
Luke 21:36
Watch therefore, praying at every proper opportunity, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things which are ready to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
John 6:27
Labour not for the meat which is perishable, but for that meat which endureth unto life eternal, which the Son of man will give you: for him hath the Father sealed, even God.
John 7:34
Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, ye cannot come.
John 8:21
Then spake Jesus again to them, I am going away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin: whither I am going ye cannot come.
John 13:33
My dear children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: as I said to the Jews, Whither I am going, ye cannot come; so say I now to you.
Romans 9:31-33
But Israel, pursuing after the law of righteousness, hath not come up to the law of righteousness.
Romans 10:3
For being ignorant of the righteousness which is of God, and seeking to establish a righteousness of their own, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Know ye not that they who run on the course, all run indeed, yet but one obtaineth the price? So run, that ye may obtain.
Philippians 2:12-13
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always been obedient, not only during my presence with you, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling work out your own salvation.
Colossians 1:29
for which also I am labouring, conflicting in the energy of his might, which worketh in me powerfully.
Hebrews 4:11
Let us then earnestly endeavour to enter into that rest, lest any person fall after the same example of unbelief.
2 Peter 1:10
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make sure your calling and election: for by doing these things, ye shall never at any time stumble: