Luke 13:24
"Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,
Matthew 7:13-14
Enter by the narrow gate: for [the gate] is broad and the road is wide that leads to destruction, and many enter that way.
Matthew 11:12
From the days of John the Baptist till now the Realm of heaven suffers violence, and the violent press into it.
Mark 6:18-20
John had told Herod, "You have no right to your brother's wife."
Luke 21:36
From hour to hour keep awake, praying that you may succeed in escaping all these dangers to come and in standing before the Son of man."
John 6:27
Work for no perishing food, but for that lasting food which means eternal life; the Son of man will give you that, for the Father, God, has certified him."
John 7:34
you will search for me but you will not find me, and where I go, you cannot come."
John 8:21
Then he said to them again, "I go away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin; where I go, you cannot come."
John 13:33
My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer; then you will look for me, and, as I told the Jews I tell you now, where I go you cannot come.
Romans 9:31-33
whereas Israel who did aim at the law of righteousness have failed to reach that law.
Romans 10:3
They would not surrender to the righteousness of God, because they were ignorant of his righteousness and therefore essayed to set up a righteousness of their own.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.
Philippians 2:12-13
Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling,
Colossians 1:29
I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.
Hebrews 4:11
Let us be eager then to enter that Rest, in case anyone falls into the same sort of disobedience.
2 Peter 1:10
So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;