24Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
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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: …
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. …
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-30)We have here, I. A question put to our Lord Jesus. Who it was that put it we are not told, whether a friend or a foe; for he both gave a great liberty of questioning him and returned answers to the thoughts and intents of the heart. The question was, Are there few that are saved ? Luke 13:23: ei oligoi hoi sozomenoi —“ If the saved be few ? Master, I have heard thou shouldest say so; is it true?”…
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