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 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,

For

Because I called out and you refused me, I stretched out my hand, yet there is none who heeds.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, but there is none, but knowledge {comes easily to him who understands}.

The craving of a lazy person will kill him, for his hands refuse to work.

The fool is so worn out by a hard day's work {he cannot even find his way home at night}.

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.

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.

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.

For John had been saying to Herod, "It is not permitted for you to have your brother's wife."

You will seek me and will not find [me], and where I am, you cannot come."

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!"

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.

But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, did not attain to the law.

For ignoring the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

General references

There is a way [that seems] upright {to} a man, but its end [is] the way of death.

For many are called but few [are] chosen."

You will seek me and will not find [me], and where I am, you cannot come."