Matthew 7:14
For small is the gate, and narrow the road, that leads to Life, and those that find it are few.
Acts 14:22
Reassuring the minds of the disciples, urging them to remain true to the Faith, and showing that it is only through many troubles that we can enter the Kingdom of God.
Matthew 16:24-25
Then Jesus said to his disciples: "If any man wishes to walk in my steps, let him renounce self, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Matthew 20:16
So those who are last will be first, and the first last."
Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few chosen."
Matthew 25:1-12
Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten bridesmaids who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
Mark 8:34
Calling the people and his disciples to him, Jesus said: "If any man wishes to walk in my steps, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and follow me.
Luke 12:32
So do not be afraid, my little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the Kingdom.
Luke 13:23-30
"Master," some one asked, "are there but few in the path of Salvation?" And Jesus answered:
John 15:18-20
If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me.
John 16:2
They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.
John 16:33
I have spoken to you in this way, so that in me you may find peace. In the world you will find trouble; yet, take courage! I have conquered the world."
Romans 9:27-29
And Isaiah cries aloud over Israel-'Though the Sons of Israel are like the sand of the sea in number, only a remnant of them shall escape!
Romans 9:32
And why? Because they looked to obedience, and not to faith, to secure it. They stumbled over 'the Stumbling-block.'
Romans 11:5-6
And so in our own time, too, there is to be found a remnant of our nation selected by God in love.
Romans 12:2
Do not conform to the fashion of this world; but be transformed by the complete change that has come over your minds, so that you may discern what God's will is--all that is good, acceptable, and perfect.
Ephesians 2:2-3
For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the Powers of the air--the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient.
1 Thessalonians 3:2-5
And sent Timothy, our Brother and God's minister of the Good News of the Christ, to strengthen you, and to encourage you in your faith,
1 Peter 3:20-21
who once were disobedient, at the time when God patiently waited, in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared; in which some few lives, eight in all, were saved by means of water.