Luke 13:24
"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to,
Proverbs 21:25
The craving of a lazy person will kill him, for his hands refuse to work.
Genesis 32:25-26
And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he struck his hip socket, so that Jacob's hip socket was sprained as he wrestled with him.
Proverbs 1:24-28
Because I called out and you refused me, I stretched out my hand, yet there is none who heeds.
Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeks wisdom, but there is none, but knowledge {comes easily to him who understands}.
Ecclesiastes 10:15
The fool is so worn out by a hard day's work {he cannot even find his way home at night}.
Isaiah 1:15
And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I [will] not be listening. Your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 58:2-4
Yet they seek me day [by] day, and they desire the knowledge of my ways like a nation that {practiced} righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of its God; they ask me for {righteous judgments}, they desire the closeness of God.
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you {as people do}, and they sit {before you}, and my people hear your words, and they do not do them, for they [are] showing passion in their mouth, but their heart [is] going after ill-gotten gain.
Matthew 7:13-14
"Enter through the narrow gate, because broad [is] the gate and spacious [is] the road that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it,
Matthew 11:12
But from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven is treated violently, and the violent claim it.
Mark 6:18-20
For John had been saying to Herod, "It is not permitted for you to have your brother's wife."
Luke 21:36
But be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these [things] [that] are going to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."
John 6:27
Do not work for the food that perishes, but the food that remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has set his seal on this one."
John 7:34
You will seek me and will not find [me], and where I am, you cannot come."
John 8:21
So he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek me and will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come!"
John 13:33
Children, yet a little [time] I am with you. You will seek me and just as I said to the Jews, "Where I am going you cannot come," now I say also to you.
Romans 9:31-33
But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, did not attain to the law.
Romans 10:3
For ignoring the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
Philippians 2:12-13
Therefore my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Colossians 1:29
for which [purpose] also I labor, striving according to his working which is at work powerfully in me.
Hebrews 4:11
Therefore, let us make every effort to enter into that rest, in order that no one may fall in the same pattern of disobedience.
2 Peter 1:10
Therefore, brothers, be zealous even more to make your calling and election secure, because [if you] do these [things], you will never ever stumble.