Luke 13:24

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Summary

Luke 13:24

Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

The strait

Matthew 7:13

For

General references

Proverbs 14:12

Matthew 22:14

John 7:34

Bible References

The strait

“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.

For

“Because I called and you refused,
I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention;

A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none,
But knowledge is easy to one who has understanding.

The desire of the sluggard puts him to death,
For his hands refuse to work;

The toil of a fool so wearies him that he does not even know how to go to a city.

“So when you spread out your hands in prayer,

I will hide My eyes from you;

Yes, even though you multiply prayers,
I will not listen.

Your hands are covered with blood.

“Yet they seek Me day by day and delight to know My ways,
As a nation that has done righteousness
And has not forsaken the ordinance of their God.
They ask Me for just decisions,
They delight in the nearness of God.

They come to you as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not do them, for they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their heart goes after their gain.

For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

Then He said again to them, “I go away, and you will seek Me, and will die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come.”

Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’

but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.

For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

General references

There is a way which seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death.

For many are

called, but few are chosen.”

You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”