Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.


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Matthew 7 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
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.
Ecclesiastes 8 6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
Proverbs 22 5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Joshua 3 4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
Job 36 16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
2 Kings 6 1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
Job 36 18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
Isaiah 35 8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
Job 3 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Luke 16 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Ezekiel 47 2 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
2 Kings 19 28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Isaiah 43 16 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
2 Corinthians 6 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
Psalms 118 20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
Proverbs 24 7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
Jeremiah 6 16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
Jeremiah 2 33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Psalms 1 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Isaiah 28 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Isaiah 49 19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
Job 11 16 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
Job 3 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
1 Corinthians 1 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Psalms 55 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
Philippians 1 23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Proverbs 16 17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
Isaiah 37 29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Ezekiel 34 21 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
Proverbs 10 32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
Isaiah 59 14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Proverbs 15 24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
Ezekiel 40 6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.
Proverbs 10 11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 1 4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
Genesis 1 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Proverbs 15 7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
Luke 18 25 For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Hebrews 6 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Proverbs 6 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Leviticus 11 47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
James 3 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Proverbs 10 13 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Deuteronomy 14 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
Deuteronomy 28 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
Proverbs 14 12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
John 10 9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
Psalms 10 1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
Ecclesiastes 7 17 Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?