Thematic Bible: Number spoken of as few
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"You should try hard to enter [God's kingdom] by means of the narrow door, for I tell you, many people will try to enter it but will not be able to.
Verse Concepts
These people had disobeyed [Noah's preaching, See II Pet. 2:5] back when God's patience waited [for them to repent, See Gen. 6:3], during the days of Noah, when the ship was being constructed. It was by that means [i.e., the ship floating them to safety through the Flood waters] that a few persons, eight of them, were saved [from destruction] through water.
Verse Concepts
For many people are called [by God] but [only those] few [who respond] are chosen [by Him]."
Verse Concepts
"But you have a few people [there] in Sardis who have not [spiritually] polluted their clothing, and they will walk with me in [robes of] white [i.e., probably now on earth as well as in heaven], for they are worthy.
Verse Concepts
But the door that is narrow and the road that is restricted lead to [spiritual] life and [only] a few people will find them.
Verse Concepts
Related Topics
- Ambition, positive aspects of
- Baptism, significance of
- Before The Flood
- Being Chosen
- Called
- Chosen Ones
- Clean Clothes
- Clothed With Righteousness
- Covenant, God's with Noah
- Divine Delays
- Doing Your Best
- Earnestness
- Eight People
- Entering Life
- Eternal life
- Few In The Kingdom
- Few People
- Finding Things
- God Waiting
- God's Call, Few Respond
- God's attitude towards people
- God, Patience Of
- Hard To Be Saved
- Holy Ambition
- Longsuffering Of God
- Many Seeking Salvation
- Narrow Things
- Noah
- Not Finding
- Paths Of Life
- People's Inability To Serve God
- Punishment, Delayed
- Rest, Eternal
- Seafaring
- Seeking Life
- Smallness
- Spiritual Striving
- Striving With God
- Struggles
- Success And Hard Work
- The Deluge
- The Environment