20 Bible Verses about Entering Life

"Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

"Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide, and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter by it. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and few are those who find it.

I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city.

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, to the fire that shall never be quenched.

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.

As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest.'"

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any one of you be judged to have come short of it.

And again in this place he said, "They shall never enter my rest."

Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had the good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience,

Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience.

And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.

And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.

He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.

who will not receive a hundredfold now in this timehouse and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come, eternal life.

who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life."

For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.