Luke 13:24

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Summary

Luke 13:24

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

Matthew 7:13

For

General references

Proverbs 14:12

Matthew 22:14

John 7:34

Bible References

The strait

Enter ye in through the strait gate, for broad the gate and spacious the way leading to destruction, and many are they coming in through it.

For

Because I called and ye will refuse; I stretched forth my hands, and none attending;

He mocking sought wisdom, and none: and knowledge being easy to him understanding.

The desire of the slothful shall kill him, for his hands refused to work,

The labor of the foolish will weary them, because he knew not to go to the city.

And in the spreading forth of your hands I will hide mine eyes from you.; also when ye shall multiply prayer I hear not: your hands were full of blood.

And day, day, they will seek me, and delight to know my way as a nation who did justice and forsook not the judgment of his God: they will ask me the judgments of justice, they will delight to draw near to Gad.

And they will come to thee, according to the coming of the people, and they will sit before thee my people, and they heard thy words, and they did them not: for they making loves with their mouth, their heart went after their plunder.

For John said to Herod, That it is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

And ye shall seek me and shall not find: and where I am, ye cannot come.

Then said Jesus again to them, I retire, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: where I retire, ye cannot come.

Little children, yet a little am I with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said to the Jews, That where I retire, ye cannot come; and I say to you now.

And Israel following the law of justice, reached not the law of justice.

For not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not been subjected to the justice of God.

General references

There is a way straight before man, and its latter state the ways of death.

For many are called, and few chosen.

And ye shall seek me and shall not find: and where I am, ye cannot come.