Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

The strait

General references

Bible References

The strait

Matthew 7:13
"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.

For

Mark 6:18
John said to Herod, "It is not right for you to be living with your brother's wife."
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
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.

General references

Matthew 22:14
For many are invited but few chosen."
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."