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Mat 7:13 — 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:

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

at		Mat 3:2,8; Mat 18:2,3; Mat 23:13; Pro 9:6; Isa 55:7; Eze 18:27-32; Luk 9:33; Luk 13:24; Luk 13:25; Luk 14:33; Jhn 10:9; Jhn 14:6; Act 2:38-40; Act 3:19; 2Cr 6:17; Gal 5:24
for		Gen 6:5,12; Psa 14:2,3; Isa 1:9; Rom 3:9-19; 2Cr 4:4; Eph 2:2,3; 1Jo 5:19; Rev 12:9; Rev 13:8; Rev 20:3
that		Mat 25:41,46; Pro 7:27; Pro 16:25; Rom 9:22; Phl 3:19; 2Th 1:8,9; 1Pe 4:17,18; Rev 20:15

Correlating Passages

	Mat 3:2	And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
	Mat 3:8	Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
	Mat 18:2	And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
	Mat 18:3	And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
	Mat 23:13	But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in [yourselves], neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
	Pro 9:6	Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
	Isa 55:7	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.
	Eze 18:27	Again, when the wicked [man] turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
	Eze 18:28	Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
	Eze 18:29	Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
	Eze 18:30	Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn [yourselves] from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
	Eze 18:31	Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
	Eze 18:32	For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn [yourselves], and live ye.
	Luk 9:33	And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.
	Luk 13:24	Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
	Luk 13:25	When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
	Luk 14:33	So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
	Jhn 10:9	I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
	Jhn 14:6	Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
	Act 2:38	Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
	Act 2:39	For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall call.
	Act 2:40	And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
	Act 3:19	Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
	2Cr 6:17	Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you,
	Gal 5:24	And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

for

	Gen 6:5	And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
	Gen 6:12	And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
	Psa 14:2	The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God.
	Psa 14:3	They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
	Isa 1:9	Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
	Rom 3:9	What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
	Rom 3:10	As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
	Rom 3:11	There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
	Rom 3:12	They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
	Rom 3:13	Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:
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	2Cr 4:4	In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
	Eph 2:2	Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
	Eph 2:3	Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
	1Jo 5:19	[And] we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
	Rev 12:9	And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
	Rev 13:8	And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
	Rev 20:3	And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

that

	Mat 25:41	Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
	Mat 25:46	And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
	Pro 7:27	Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
	Pro 16:25	There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death.
	Rom 9:22	[What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
	Phl 3:19	Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
	2Th 1:8	In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
	2Th 1:9	Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
	1Pe 4:17	For the time [is come] that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of them that obey not the gospel of God?
	1Pe 4:18	And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
	Rev 20:15	And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

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Scott, Thomas. "Matthew 7:13," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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