For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.

Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” So he said to them,

Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.

But the gate is narrow and the way is difficult that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.

after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.