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 easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

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 that they may enter the city by the gates.

And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.

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 not enter my rest.'"

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest,'"although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.

And again in this passage he said, "They shall not enter my rest."

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

Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort 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 crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.

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

Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

And everyone 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 will inherit eternal life.

who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses 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.