Matthew 7:14
For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and few are those who find it.
Acts 14:22
strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying, "Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God."
Matthew 16:24-25
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Matthew 20:16
So the last will be first, and the first will be last."
Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few are chosen."
Matthew 25:1-12
"Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
Mark 8:34
And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Luke 12:32
Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Luke 13:23-30
Then one said to him, "Lord, will those who are saved be few?" And he said to them,
John 15:18-20
"If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.
John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage! I have overcome the world."
Romans 9:27-29
And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
Romans 9:32
Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,
Romans 11:5-6
So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and 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 now at work in the sons of disobedience.
1 Thessalonians 3:2-5
and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,
1 Peter 3:20-21
who formerly did not obey, when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.