20 Bible Verses about Entering Life

Strive to go in through the narrow door. Many people will try to go in and will not be able.

Enter through the narrow gate, since the gate to destruction is wide and the road that leads to destruction is wide and many enter through it. Narrow is the gate and difficult is the way to life. Only a few put forth the effort. Yes, only a few people enter the narrow gate.

I am the door. If any man enters through me he will be saved. He will go in and out and find pasture.

Blessed are those who obey his commandments. They have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates of the city.

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It would be better to enter into life maimed then, having two hands to be destroyed in the ever-burning trash fires in the Valley of Hinnom. (Greek: Gehenna)

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is good for you to enter into life with only one foot, rather than having two feet to be cast into the ever-burning fires of Hinnom. (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction)

So I swore in my anger: 'They will not enter into my rest.'

We who believe enter into the rest. As God said: I swore in my anger: 'They shall not enter into my rest.' Yet God's works were completed from the foundation of the world.

While the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear that one of you might come up short and not enter.

Again: They shall not enter into my rest.

It remains for some to enter into it. Those who first received the good news did not enter in because they did not obey and lacked faith.

Let us do our utmost to enter into that rest. Let no one fall into the same pattern of disobedience by not obeying the word.

If your hand or your foot is a cause of stumbling cut it off. Get rid of it. It is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to be destroyed by eternal fire.

If your eye causes you stumbling, take it out and throw it away. It is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to be destroyed in ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna).

He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for life eternal. Both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

He that loves his life [in this world] loses it; and he that detests (does not love) his life in this world shall save it for everlasting life.

Everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will receive many times as much, and have everlasting life.

will receive a hundred times as much now in this time, and in the age to come everlasting life.

who shall not receive manifold more now and in the age to come everlasting life.

He that sows to his own flesh will harvest corruption of the flesh. But he that sows to the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.