Luke 13:24
13:24 “Exert every effort
to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.
Luke 13:1
A Call to Repent
13:1 Now there were some present on that occasion who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
Colossians 1:24-27
1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.
1:25 I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God – given to me for you – in order to complete the word of God,
1:26 that is, the mystery that has been kept hidden from ages and generations, but has now been revealed to his saints.
1:27 God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Philippians 1:15
1:15 Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.
Colossians 1:29
1:29 Toward this goal
I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully
works in me.
Hebrews 12:4
12:4 You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed
in your struggle against sin.