20 Bible Verses about Entering Life

“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you, many will try to enter and won’t be able

“Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it. How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.

I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will come in and go 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 the city by the gates.

And if your hand causes your downfall, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and go to hell—the unquenchable fire,

And if your foot causes your downfall, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell— [the unquenchable fire,

So I swore in My anger,
“They will not enter My rest.”

(for we who have believed enter the rest), in keeping with what He has said:

So I swore in My anger,
they will not enter My rest.

And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world,

Therefore, while the promise to enter His rest remains, let us fear that none of you should miss it.

Again, in that passage He says, They will never enter My rest.

Since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter because of disobedience,

Let us then make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same pattern of disobedience.

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

And if your eye causes your downfall, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, rather than to have two eyes and be thrown into hellfire!

The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, so the sower and reaper can rejoice together.

The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

And everyone who has left houses, brothers or sisters, father or mother, children, or fields because of My name will receive 100 times more and will inherit eternal life.

who will not receive 100 times more, now at this time—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions—and eternal life in the age to come.

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

because the one who sows to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.