Matthew 7:14 Cross References - Diaglott

¹⁴ How strait the gate, and difficult the road that leading into the life; and few are they finding her.

²⁴ Then the Jesus said to the disciples of him: If any one wish after me to come, let him deny himself, and let him bear the cross of him, and follow me. ²⁵ Whoever for may wish the life of him to save, shall lose her; whoever and may lose the life of him on account of me, shall find her.

¹⁶ Thus shall be the last, first; and the first, last. Many for are called, few but chosen.

¹⁴ Many for are called, few but picked out.

¹ Then will be compared the kingdom of the heavens ten virgins, who having taken the lamps of them, went out to a meeting of the bridegroom. ² Five and were of them prudent, and five foolish. ³ Who foolish, having taken the lamps of them, not took with themselves oil. ⁴ The but prudent took oil in the vessels of them with the lamps of them. ⁵ Delaying and the bridegroom, nodded all, and did sleep. ⁶ Of middle and night a cry was raised; Lo, the bridegroom comes; go out to a meeting of him. ⁷ Then arose all the virgins those, and put in order the lamps of them. ⁸ The but foolish to the prudent said: Give to us out of the oil of you, because the lamps of us are extinguished. ⁹ Answered but the prudent, saying: Lest not it might suffice to us and to you; go you rather to the selling, and buy to yourselves. ¹⁰ Going away and of them to buy, came the bridegroom; and the prepared ones entered with him into the nuptial-feasts; and was closed the door. ¹¹ Afterwards and came also the remaining virgins, saying: O lord, O lord, open to us. ¹² The but answering said: Indeed I say to you, not know you.

³⁴ And having called the crowd with the disciples of himself, he said to them: Whoever wishes after me to follow, let him deny himself, and let him bear the cross of himself, and let him follow me.

³² Not fear, the little flock; for it has pleased the Father of you to give to you the kingdom.

²³ Said and one to him: O lord, are few those being saved? He and said to them: ²⁴ Agonize you to enter through the strait door; for many, I say to you, will seek to enter, and not will be able. ²⁵ From when may be raised the householder, and may have shut the door, and you may begin without to stand, and to knock the door, saying: O lord, O lord, open thou to us; and answering he will say to you: Not I know you, whence you are. ²⁶ Then you will begin to say: We are in presence of thee and in the wide places of us thou hast taught. ²⁷ And he will say: I say to you, not I know you, whence you are; depart you from me all the workers of the wrong. ²⁸ There will be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth, when you may see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of the God, you and being cast outside. ²⁹ And they will come from east and west, and from north and south; and will recline in the kingdom of the God. ³⁰ And lo, they are last, who shall be first; and they are first, who will be last.

¹⁸ If the world you hates, you know, that me before you it has hated. ¹⁹ If of the world you were, the world would the own kiss, because but of the world not you are, but I chose you out of the world, on account of this hates you the world. ²⁰ Remember you the world, of which I said to you. Not is a slave greater of the lord of himself. If me they persecuted, also you they will persecute; if the word of me they kept, also the yours they will keep.

² From synagogues they will put you; but comes an hour, that every one the killing you, may think a service to offer to the God.

³³ These things I have spoken to you, that in me peace you may have. In the world affliction you have; but be you of good courage, I have overcome the world.

²² confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to abide in the faith, and that through many afflictions it behooves us to enter into the kingdom of the God.

²⁷ Esaias but cries on behalf of the Israel: If should be the number of the sons of Israel as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved. ²⁸ An account for he is finishing and cutting short in righteousness because an account having been cut short will make a Lord on the earth. ²⁹ And as before said Esaias: If not Lord of hosts left to us a seed, as Sodom we should have become, and as Gomorrah we should have been made like.

³² Why? Because not from faith, but as it were from works of law. They struck against for the stone of the stumbling;

⁵ Thus then even in the present season a remnant according to an election of favor, has been made. ⁶ If but by favor no longer from works; otherwise the favor no longer is favor.

² and not conform yourselves to take age this, but transform yourselves by the renovation of the mind of you, in order that to prove you, what the will of the God, the good and well-pleasing and perfect.

² (in which once you walked according to the age of the world this, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit of that now operating in the sons of the disobedience; ³ among whom also we all lived once in the desires of the flesh of us, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and we were children by nature of wrath, as also the others;

² and we sent Timothy, the brother of us and fellow-worker of the God in the glad tidings of the Anointed, in order that to confirm you and to exhort you in behalf of the faith of you, ³ that no one to be shaken by the afflictions these; (yourselves, for you know, that for this we are placed; ⁴ indeed for when with you we were, we previously said to you, that we are about to be afflicted, even as also it happened and you know;) ⁵ on account of this also I no longer holding out, I sent in order the to know the faith of you lest perhaps tempted you the tempter, and in vain should become the toil of us.

²⁰ having disobeyed once, when was waiting the of the God patience, in days of Noah, being prepared an ark, in which a few (this is eight) lives were carried safely through water; ²¹ which also us a representation now saves a dipping, (not of flesh a putting away of fifth, but a conscience good seeking after towards God,) through resurrection of Jesus Anointed;