20 Bible Verses about Entering Life

strive to enter in at the narrow gate: for I declare unto you, that many shall try to get in, and shall not be able.

Enter ye in at the strait gate; the gate that leadeth to destruction is broad, and the way is open, and they who pass through are numerous. but the gate which leads to life is narrow, and the way is difficult, and few there be that find it.

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved; he shall go in and out, and find pasture.

blessed are they who wash their robes, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city."

if even thy hand should make thee transgress, saw it off, and cast it away, it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than to have both hands and go into Gehenna, the unextinguishable fire:

and if thy foot make thee transgress, saw it off, it is better for you to enter into life, tho' lame, than to have both feet, and be thrown into Gehenna, the unextinguishable fire:

so I swear in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest."

Whereas 'tis we who have believed that shall enter into rest, as he said, "wherefore I have sworn in my wrath, that they shall not enter into my rest." which is different from that rest, at the beginning of the world, when the work of creation was finished.

Let us therefore fear, lest any of us by rejecting the promise of entring into his rest, should be excluded from it.

but in this place 'tis said, "they shall not enter into my rest."

Since there remains then a rest which some are still to enter into, for they to whom the promise was first made, did not enter in, because of their incredulity;

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any of us by imitating their incredulity, should fall short thereof like them.

wherefore if thy hand or thy foot occasions thee to relapse, lop them off, and cast them away: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire.

and if thine eye occasions thee to relapse, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two to be cast into hell-fire.

he that reapeth, receiveth wages, by gathering fruit unto life eternal: that the sower, and the reaper, may both rejoice together.

he that loveth his life, shall lose it: but he that sacrifices his life in this world, shall preserve it to eternity.

and every one that abandons his family, his brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my sake, shall receive in that age an hundred times the value, and shall inherit hereafter everlasting life.

but shall receive at present in this age, what will be a hundred times better to him, than houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, tho' with persecution: and in the age to come eternal life.

who shall not receive abundantly more even in this age, and everlasting life in the age to come.

he that soweth to his vices, shall reap the deadly fruit of his vices; but he that sows to the spirit, shall of the spirit reap everlasting life.