“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter throu
Therefore, brothers, strive to make your calling and election sure. For if you practice these things you will never stum
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the pr
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disob
So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand b
So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although
Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continu
The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.
Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For o
Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righte
To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.
Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake t
The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will no
For John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife!”
A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.
Again He said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you c
When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestl
From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subject to violence, and the violent lay cla
Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say