Luke 13:24 Cross References
Luke 13:24
24: "The door to heaven is narrow. Work hard to get in, because many will try to enter,
2 Peter 1:10
- So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. Doing this, you will never stumble or fall away.
Matthew 7:13
- "You can enter God's Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose the easy way.
- But the gateway to life is small, and the road is narrow, and only a few ever find it.
Hebrews 4:11
- Let us do our best to enter that place of rest. For anyone who disobeys God, as the people of Israel did, will fall.
Proverbs 21:25
- The desires of lazy people will be their ruin, for their hands refuse to work.
Romans 10:3
- For they don't understand God's way of making people right with himself. Instead, they are clinging to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. They won't go along with God's way.
Ezekiel 33:31
- So they come pretending to be sincere and sit before you listening. But they have no intention of doing what I tell them. They express love with their mouths, but their hearts seek only after money.
Ecclesiastes 10:15
- Fools are so exhausted by a little work that they have no strength for even the simplest tasks.
John 7:34
- You will search for me but not find me. And you won't be able to come where I am."
Proverbs 1:24
- "I called you so often, but you didn't come. I reached out to you, but you paid no attention.
- You ignored my advice and rejected the correction I offered.
- So I will laugh when you are in trouble! I will mock you when disaster overtakes you--
- when calamity overcomes you like a storm, when you are engulfed by trouble, and when anguish and distress overwhelm you.
- "I will not answer when they cry for help. Even though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me.
Isaiah 58:2
- Yet they act so pious! They come to the Temple every day and seem delighted to hear my laws. You would almost think this was a righteous nation that would never abandon its God. They love to make a show of coming to me and asking me to take action on their behalf.
- `We have fasted before you!' they say. `Why aren't you impressed? We have done much penance, and you don't even notice it!'"I will tell you why! It's because you are living for yourselves even while you are fasting. You keep right on oppressing your workers.
- What good is fasting when you keep on fighting and quarreling? This kind of fasting will never get you anywhere with me.
John 6:27
- But you shouldn't be so concerned about perishable things like food. Spend your energy seeking the eternal life that I, the Son of Man, can give you. For God the Father has sent me for that very purpose."
1 Corinthians 9:24
- Remember that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize. You also must run in such a way that you will win.
- All athletes practice strict self-control. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize.
- So I run straight to the goal with purpose in every step. I am not like a boxer who misses his punches.
- I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.
Luke 21:36
- Keep a constant watch. And pray that, if possible, you may escape these horrors and stand before the Son of Man."
Mark 6:18
- John kept telling Herod, "It is illegal for you to marry your brother's wife."
- Herodias was enraged and wanted John killed in revenge, but without Herod's approval she was powerless.
- And Herod respected John, knowing that he was a good and holy man, so he kept him under his protection. Herod was disturbed whenever he talked with John, but even so, he liked to listen to him.
Colossians 1:29
- I work very hard at this, as I depend on Christ's mighty power that works within me.
Romans 9:31
- But the Jews, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded.
- Why not? Because they were trying to get right with God by keeping the law and being good instead of by depending on faith. They stumbled over the great rock in their path.
- God warned them of this in the Scriptures when he said, "I am placing a stone in Jerusalem that causes people to stumble, and a rock that makes them fall. But anyone who believes in him will not be disappointed. "
John 8:21
- Later Jesus said to them again, "I am going away. You will search for me and die in your sin. You cannot come where I am going."
Isaiah 1:15
- From now on, when you lift up your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen. For your hands are covered with the blood of your innocent victims.
Philippians 2:12
- Dearest friends, you were always so careful to follow my instructions when I was with you. And now that I am away you must be even more careful to put into action God's saving work in your lives, obeying God with deep reverence and fear.
- For God is working in you, giving you the desire to obey him and the power to do what pleases him.
Proverbs 14:6
- A mocker seeks wisdom and never finds it, but knowledge comes easily to those with understanding.
Matthew 11:12
- And from the time John the Baptist began preaching and baptizing until now, the Kingdom of Heaven has been forcefully advancing, and violent people attack it.
Genesis 32:25
- When the man saw that he couldn't win the match, he struck Jacob's hip and knocked it out of joint at the socket.
- Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is dawn." But Jacob panted, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
John 13:33
- Dear children, how brief are these moments before I must go away and leave you! Then, though you search for me, you cannot come to me--just as I told the Jewish leaders.