"Because strait {is} the gate, and narrow {is} the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. {Because:…" — Matthew 7:14

Matthew 7:14 · KJV

“Because strait {is} the gate, and narrow {is} the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. {Because: or, How}”

— Matthew 7:14

Verse 13

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: {strait: or, narrow}

Verse 15

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Matthew 7 — Context

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

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: {strait: or, narrow}

Because strait {is} the gate, and narrow {is} the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. {Because: or, How}

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Cross References

Luke 13:23-30

Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,

Matthew 22:14

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in {his} talk.

Matthew 16:24-25

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any {man} will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Romans 12:2

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what {is} that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Isaiah 35:8

And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it {shall be} for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err {therein}. {but...: or, for he shall be with them}

Proverbs 8:20

I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment: {lead: or, walk}

Mark 8:34

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.

Acts 14:22

Confirming the souls of the disciples, {and} exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.