Luke 13:24
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labor.
Genesis 32:25-26
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh: and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
Proverbs 1:24-28
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Proverbs 14:6
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy to him that understandeth.
Ecclesiastes 10:15
The labor of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
Isaiah 1:15
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yes, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 58:2-4
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to thee as the people come, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Matthew 7:13-14
Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in by it.
Matthew 11:12
And from the days of John the Baptist, until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
Mark 6:18-20
For John had said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
Luke 21:36
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
John 6:27
Labor not for the food which perisheth, but for that food which endureth to everlasting life, which the Son of man will give to you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
John 7:34
Ye will seek me, and will not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.
John 8:21
Then said Jesus again to them, I am going away, and ye will seek me, and will die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
John 13:33
Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye will seek me: and, as I said to the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
Romans 9:31-33
But Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Romans 10:3
For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Know ye not, that they who run in a race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
Philippians 2:12-13
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye 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 I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Hebrews 4:11
Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
2 Peter 1:10
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: