Matthew 7:14

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Summary

Matthew 7:14

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Because

General references

Romans 3:17

Bible References

Because

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

May the path of your foot be balanced and all your ways be sure.

In the way of righteousness I walk, in the midst of paths of justice,

And your ears shall hear a word from behind you, saying, "this [is] the way; walk in it," when you go to your right and when you go to your left.

And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness. [The] unclean shall not travel through it, but it [is] for them, he who walks [on the] way; and fools shall not wander about.

And one shall say, "Build up, build up! Clear [the] way! Remove [the] obstacles from the way of my people!"

Thus says Yahweh: "Stand at [the] roads and look, and ask for [the] ancient paths, where the way of the good [is], and walk in it, and find rest for your inner selves. But they said, 'We will not walk [in it].'

And summoning the crowd together with his disciples, he said to them, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before [it hated] you.

{They will expel you from the synagogue}, but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging [them] to continue in the faith and [saying], "Through many persecutions it is necessary [for] us to enter into the kingdom of God."

and we sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, in order to strengthen and to encourage you about your faith,

General references

the {ones counted} were eighty thousand five hundred and eighty.

Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness--every good course--

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."

and they have not known the way of peace.