The Narrow Door
Luke 13:24
In 9 translations
- BSB
- “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
- KJV
- ¶ Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
- WEB
- “Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.
- ASV
- Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
- LSV
- “Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and will not be able;
- YLT
- 'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;
- DBY
- Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.
- DRC
- Strive to enter by the narrow gate; for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter, and shall not be able.
- GNV
- Striue to enter in at the straite gate: for many, I say vnto you, will seeke to enter in, and shall not be able.
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read θύρας (“door”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read πύλης (“gate”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: θύρας. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read θύρας; Robinson–Pierpont read πύλης.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- Ἀγωνίζεσθε εἰσελθεῖν διὰ τῆς στενῆς θύρας, ὅτι πολλοί, λέγω ὑμῖν, ζητήσουσιν εἰσελθεῖν καὶ οὐκ ἰσχύσουσιν,
- RP2018
- Ἀγωνίζεσθε εἰσελθεῖν διὰ τῆς στενῆς πύλης· ὅτι πολλοί, λέγω ὑμῖν, ζητήσουσιν εἰσελθεῖν, καὶ οὐκ ἰσχύσουσιν.
- TR-Boyd
- Ἀγωνίζεσθε εἰσελθεῖν διὰ τῆς στενῆς πύλης· ὅτι πολλοί, λέγω ὑμῖν, ζητήσουσιν εἰσελθεῖν, καὶ οὐκ ἰσχύσουσιν.
- SCR1894
- αγωνιζεσθε εισελθειν δια της στενης πυλης οτι πολλοι λεγω υμιν ζητησουσιν εισελθειν και ουκ ισχυσουσιν
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◆ Teaching and Healing in Perea to Jerusalem
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Cross-references most cited first
- Matthew 7:13–14Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.
- 2 Peter 1:10Therefore, brothers, strive to make your calling and election sure. For if you practice these things you will never stumble,
- 1 Corinthians 9:24–27Do 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 prize. Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that…
- Hebrews 4:11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
- Luke 21:36So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
- Ezekiel 33:31So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
- Philippians 2:12–13Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who works in you to will and…
- Proverbs 21:25The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.
- John 6:27Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”
- Romans 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
- Colossians 1:29To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.
- Proverbs 1:24–28Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand, because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction, in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you, when…
- Isaiah 58:2–4For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of…
- John 7:34You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
- Ecclesiastes 10:15The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
- Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
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