20 Bible Verses about Entering Life

"You must strain every nerve to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in, and will not succeed,

"Go in at the narrow gate. For the road that leads to destruction is broad and spacious, and there are many who go in by it. But the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few that find it.

I am the door. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will pass in and out and find pasture.

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so as to have the right to approach the tree of life and to enter the gates of the city.

If your hand makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life maimed, than go with both your hands to the pit, into the fire that cannot be put out.

And if your foot makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life crippled, than be thrown with both your feet into the pit.

But as I made oath in my anger, They shall never be admitted to my Rest!"

For we who have believed are admitted to that Rest, of which he said, "As I made oath in my anger, They shall never be admitted to my Rest!" And yet God's work was finished at the creation of the world,

We ought therefore to fear that when the promise of admission to his Rest is still open, some one of you may be found to have failed to reach it.

while here he says again, "They shall never be admitted to my Rest!"

Since then it is still true that somebody will be admitted to it, and those who had a gospel preached to them before were not admitted because of their disobedience,

Let us, therefore, make every effort to be admitted to that Rest, so that none of us may fail through such disobedience as theirs.

"But if your own hand or your own foot makes you fall, cut it off and throw it away. You might better enter upon life maimed or crippled than keep both hands and feet but be thrown into the everlasting fire.

And if your own eye makes you fall, dig it out and throw it away. You might better enter upon life with only one eye than be thrown with both eyes into the fiery pit.

The reaper is already being paid and gathering the harvest for eternal life, so that the sower may be glad with the reaper.

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

And anyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or land for my sake will receive many times as much, and share eternal life.

but will receive now in this life a hundred times as much in homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands, though not without persecution??nd in the coming age eternal life.

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

The man who sows to gratify his physical cravings will reap destruction from them, and the man who sows to benefit the spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.