13Enter 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:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. …
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-14)Our Lord Jesus here presses upon us that righteousness towards men which is an essential branch of true religion, and that religion towards God which is an essential branch of universal righteousness. I. We must make righteousness our rule, and be ruled by it, Matt. 7:12. Therefore , lay this down for your principle, to do as you would be done by; therefore, that you may conform to the foregoing p…
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