Verse 24

Stryue to enter in at the strayte gate: for many I say vnto you, wyll seke to enter in, and shall not be able.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 Wherfore brethren, geue the more diligence for to make your callyng and election sure: For yf ye do such thynges, ye shall neuer fall.
  • Prov 21:25 : 25 The desire of the slouthfull kylleth him: for his handes wyll not labour.
  • Eccl 10:15 : 15 The labour of the foolishe is greeuous vnto them, whyle they know not howe to go into the citie.
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 When you holde out your handes, I wyll turne myne eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, yet I wyll heare nothyng at all, seyng your handes are full of blood.
  • Isa 58:2-4 : 2 For they seeke me dayly, and wyll knowe my wayes, euen as it were a people that dyd right, and had not forsaken the statutes of their God: they aske of me concerning right iudgement, and wyll be nye vnto God. 3 Wherefore fast we say they and thou seest it not? we put our liues to straitnesse, and thou regardest it not? 4 Beholde, when ye fast, your lust remayneth still, for ye do no lesse violence to your detters: lo, ye fast to strife and debate, and to smite with your fist without mercy: Nowe ye shall not fast thus, that your voyce might be hearde aboue.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 They come vnto thee as the people vseth to come, and my people syt before thee, and heare thy wordes, but they do not therafter: for in their mouthes they make a iest of them, and their heart goeth after their couetousnes.
  • Matt 7:13-14 : 13 Enter in at the strayte gate. For wyde is the gate, and brode is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in therat. 14 Because, strayte is the gate, and narowe is the way, which leadeth vnto lyfe, and fewe there be that fynde it.
  • Matt 11:12 : 12 From the dayes of Iohn the Baptist vntyll nowe, the kingdome of heauen suffereth violence, & the violent plucke it vnto them.
  • Mark 6:18-20 : 18 For Iohn sayde vnto Herode: It is not lawful for thee to haue thy brothers wyfe. 19 Therefore Herodias layde wayte for hym, and woulde haue kylled hym: but she coulde not. 20 For Herode feared Iohn, knowyng that he was a iuste man and an holye, and gaue hym reuerence: and when he hearde hym, he dyd many thynges, and hearde hym gladly.
  • Luke 21:36 : 36 Watche ye therfore, and pray continually, that ye may be accompted worthy to escape all these thinges yt shall come, & that ye may stand before ye sonne of man.
  • John 6:27 : 27 Labour not for the meate whiche perisheth, but for that whiche endureth vnto euerlastyng lyfe, which meate the sonne of man shall geue vnto you: For hym hath God the father sealed.
  • John 7:34 : 34 Ye shall seke me, & shall not fynde me: & where I am thither can ye not come.
  • John 8:21 : 21 Then sayde Iesus againe vnto them: I go my way, and ye shall seeke me, and shall dye in your synnes: Whyther I go, thyther can ye not come.
  • John 13:33 : 33 Litle children, yet a litle whyle am I with you. Ye shall seeke me: and as I sayde vnto the Iewes, whither I go, thither can ye not come. Also to you say I nowe:
  • Rom 9:31-33 : 31 But Israel, which folowed the lawe of ryghteousnesse, hath not attayned to the lawe of ryghteousnesse. 32 Wherfore? Because they sought it not by fayth: but as it were by the workes of the lawe. For they haue stumbled at the stumblyng stone, 33 As it is written: Beholde, I put in Sion a stumblyng stone, and a rocke of offence: And whosoeuer beleueth on hym, shall not be confounded.
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 For they beyng ignoraunt of Gods ryghteousnesse, and goyng about to stablyshe their owne righteousnesse, haue not ben obedient vnto the ryghteousness of God.
  • 1 Cor 9:24-27 : 24 Perceaue ye not howe that they which run in a race, run all, but one receaueth the rewarde? So run that ye may obtayne. 25 Euery man that proueth maisteries, abstayneth from all thynges, and they do it to obtayne a crowne that shall perishe: but we to obtayne an euerlasting crowne. 26 I therfore so run, not as at an vncertayne thing: So fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre. 27 But I tame my body, and bryng it into subiection, lest by any meanes, that when I haue preached to other, I my selfe shoulde be a castaway.
  • Phil 2:12-13 : 12 Wherfore, my dearely beloued, as ye haue alwayes obeyed, not as in my presence only, but nowe much more in my absence, worke out your owne saluation with feare and tremblyng. 13 For it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of good wyll.
  • Col 1:29 : 29 Wherunto I also labour striuyng, according to his workyng which worketh in me mightylie.
  • Heb 4:11 : 11 Let vs studie therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same ensample of disobedience.
  • Gen 32:25-26 : 25 And when he sawe that he coulde not preuayle agaynst hym, he smote hym vpon the hucklebone of his thigh, and the hucklebone of Iacobs thigh loosed out of ioynt as he wrastled with him. 26 And he said: let me go, for the day breaketh. Whiche aunswered: I will not let thee go, except thou blesse me.
  • Prov 1:24-28 : 24 Because I haue called, and ye refused, I haue stretched out my hande, and no man regarded: 25 But all my counsels haue ye dispised, and set my correction at naught: 26 Therfore wyll I also laugh at your destruction, and mocke you, when the thyng that ye feare commeth vpon you, 27 Euen when the thyng that ye be afraide of falleth in sodenly like a storme, and your miserie lyke a tempest, yea when trouble and heauinesse commeth vpon you. 28 Then shall they call vpon me, but I wyll not aunswere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me:
  • Prov 14:6 : 6 A scornfull body seketh wisdome, and fyndeth it not: but knowledge is easie vnto hym that wyll vnderstande.