Thematic Bible
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Holy ambition, general references to
Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.
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Know ye not that they who run on the course, all run indeed, yet but one obtaineth the price? So run, that ye may obtain.
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But zealously seek the gifts that are the best: and yet I shew unto you a more transcendently excellent way.
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FOLLOW earnestly after love, and zealously seek spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
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So also ye, if ye zealously affect spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound in them for the edification of the church.
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Brethren, I count not myself to have overtaken it; but this one object I pursue, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching out to those which are before, I press towards the mark for the prize of the divine calling from on high in Christ Jesus.
Be diligent to present thyself before God approved, a workman that need not blush, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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Direction » What gate to enter into
Enter in through the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and spacious the road, which leadeth to perdition, and they are many who enter that way:
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And a person said to him, Lord, are the saved few? And he said unto them, Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.
Earnestness » In prayer » In seeking salvation
Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.
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I press towards the mark for the prize of the divine calling from on high in Christ Jesus.
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Only conduct yourselves worthily as becometh the gospel of Christ; that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul wrestling together in the faith of the gospel;
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And every one who contendeth [in the games] is temperate in all things: they indeed therefore do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
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for which also I am labouring, conflicting in the energy of his might, which worketh in me powerfully.
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As yet ye have not resisted unto blood, struggling against sin.
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Entertainments » None admitted to, after the master had risen and shut the door
Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able. When the master of the family shall have arisen, and shut the door, and ye shall begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Master, master, open it for us! and he answering will tell you, I know you not whence ye are:
Holy » General references to » Ambition
Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.
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Know ye not that they who run on the course, all run indeed, yet but one obtaineth the price? So run, that ye may obtain.
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But zealously seek the gifts that are the best: and yet I shew unto you a more transcendently excellent way.
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FOLLOW earnestly after love, and zealously seek spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
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So also ye, if ye zealously affect spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound in them for the edification of the church.
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Brethren, I count not myself to have overtaken it; but this one object I pursue, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching out to those which are before, I press towards the mark for the prize of the divine calling from on high in Christ Jesus.
Be diligent to present thyself before God approved, a workman that need not blush, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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Jesus Christ » History of » Journeys toward jerusalem to attend the passover; heals many who are diseased, and teaches the people (in peraea)
AND it came to pass when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan. And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.
AND arising, he went from thence into the coasts of Judea, through the country on the other side of the Jordan; and again the multitudes came together unto him; and as his custom was, he again taught them.
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And he was teaching in one of the synagogues, on the sabbath. And, behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and unable to raise herself at all up. But when Jesus saw her, he called out aloud, and said to her, Woman, thou art delivered from thine infirmity. read more.
And he laid his hands upon her: and instantly she became erect, and glorified God. Then the ruler of the synagogue, indignant, that on the sabbath Jesus had performed the cure, addressing himself to the multitude, said, There are six days in which work is to be done: on these therefore come and be cured, and not on the sabbath-day. Then the Lord answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not every one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the manger, and lead him to water? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day? And when he had made this speech, all his opposers were covered with shame: and all the multitude rejoiced in all the glorious things which were done by him. Then said he, To what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I compare it? It is like a grain of mustard, which a man took and put into his garden; and it grew, and became a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged on its branches. And again he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven, which a woman taking, covered up in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. And he passed through the cities and villages, teaching, and making his way towards Jerusalem. And a person said to him, Lord, are the saved few? And he said unto them, Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able. When the master of the family shall have arisen, and shut the door, and ye shall begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Master, master, open it for us! and he answering will tell you, I know you not whence ye are: then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. And he will say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom, and yourselves cast out. And they shall come from the east, and west, and from north, and south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. And, behold, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last. The same day came certain Pharisees, saying to him, Depart, and begone from hence: for Herod will kill thee. And he said to them, Go tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and perform cures today and to-morrow, and on the third day I shall be perfected. But I must go on to-day and to-morrow, and the day following: for it is impossible that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets, and stonest those who are sent unto thee; how often would I have collected thy children unto me, just as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: verily I say unto you, That ye shall see me no more, till the day come when ye shall say, Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord.
And he laid his hands upon her: and instantly she became erect, and glorified God. Then the ruler of the synagogue, indignant, that on the sabbath Jesus had performed the cure, addressing himself to the multitude, said, There are six days in which work is to be done: on these therefore come and be cured, and not on the sabbath-day. Then the Lord answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not every one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the manger, and lead him to water? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day? And when he had made this speech, all his opposers were covered with shame: and all the multitude rejoiced in all the glorious things which were done by him. Then said he, To what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I compare it? It is like a grain of mustard, which a man took and put into his garden; and it grew, and became a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged on its branches. And again he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven, which a woman taking, covered up in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. And he passed through the cities and villages, teaching, and making his way towards Jerusalem. And a person said to him, Lord, are the saved few? And he said unto them, Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able. When the master of the family shall have arisen, and shut the door, and ye shall begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Master, master, open it for us! and he answering will tell you, I know you not whence ye are: then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. And he will say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom, and yourselves cast out. And they shall come from the east, and west, and from north, and south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. And, behold, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last. The same day came certain Pharisees, saying to him, Depart, and begone from hence: for Herod will kill thee. And he said to them, Go tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and perform cures today and to-morrow, and on the third day I shall be perfected. But I must go on to-day and to-morrow, and the day following: for it is impossible that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets, and stonest those who are sent unto thee; how often would I have collected thy children unto me, just as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: verily I say unto you, That ye shall see me no more, till the day come when ye shall say, Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord.
Life » The gate and way which leads to life
Enter in through the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and spacious the road, which leadeth to perdition, and they are many who enter that way: because strait is the gate, and narrow the road, which leadeth to life, and they are but a few who find it.
And he passed through the cities and villages, teaching, and making his way towards Jerusalem. And a person said to him, Lord, are the saved few? And he said unto them, Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.
The Saved » Description of » Number spoken of as few
Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.
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who in time of old were disobedient, when the long suffering of God in the days of Noe waited, while the ark was preparing, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were preserved through the water.
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For many are called, but few elect.
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Thou hast a few names even in Sardis, which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white robes, for they are worthy.
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because strait is the gate, and narrow the road, which leadeth to life, and they are but a few who find it.
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Self-delusion » Frequently persevered in, to the end
Then came afterwards the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us. But he answering said, Verily, I know you not.
Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able. When the master of the family shall have arisen, and shut the door, and ye shall begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Master, master, open it for us! and he answering will tell you, I know you not whence ye are:
Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have we not cast out devils? and in thy name done many miracles?
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Spiritual » Sowing » Striving
Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.
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I press towards the mark for the prize of the divine calling from on high in Christ Jesus.
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Only conduct yourselves worthily as becometh the gospel of Christ; that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul wrestling together in the faith of the gospel;
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And every one who contendeth [in the games] is temperate in all things: they indeed therefore do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
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for which also I am labouring, conflicting in the energy of his might, which worketh in me powerfully.
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As yet ye have not resisted unto blood, struggling against sin.
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Strait gate » The narrow path toward righteousness
Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.
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Enter in through the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and spacious the road, which leadeth to perdition, and they are many who enter that way: because strait is the gate, and narrow the road, which leadeth to life, and they are but a few who find it.
Striving » What to strive for
Know ye not that they who run on the course, all run indeed, yet but one obtaineth the price? So run, that ye may obtain.
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I press towards the mark for the prize of the divine calling from on high in Christ Jesus.
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And a person said to him, Lord, are the saved few? And he said unto them, Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.