Matthew 7:14
How strait is the gate, and how narrow the way, that leads to life! and few there are that find it.
Acts 14:22
strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, that through many afflictions we mast enter the kingdom of God.
Matthew 16:24-25
Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any one determines to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Matthew 20:16
So the last shall be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.
Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few chosen.
Matthew 25:1-12
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bride-groom.
Mark 8:34
And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them: Whoever determines to follow after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Luke 12:32
Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Luke 13:23-30
And a certain man said to him: Lord, are there few that are saved? And he said to them:
John 15:18-20
If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.
John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues; in deed, the time is coming, when he that kills you, will think that he is offering service to God.
John 16:33
These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have affliction, but be of good courage; I have overcome the world.
Romans 9:27-29
But Isaiah cries concerning Israel: Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
Romans 9:32
And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as if by works of law: for they stumbled against that stone of stumbling,
Romans 11:5-6
Thus, then, at the present time also, there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may learn what the will of God is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect.
Ephesians 2:2-3
in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is actively at work in the sons of disobedience:
1 Thessalonians 3:2-5
and we sent Timothy our brother and minister of God in the gospel of the Christ, in order that he might strengthen and comfort you with respect to your faith,
1 Peter 3:20-21
who formerly were disobedient, when the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while an ark was preparing, in which few, that is, eight souls, were brought in safety through the water;