⁸ And because you give life to the body that is now fashioned in the womb and furnish it with members, what you have created is preserved amid fire and water, and for nine months the womb^[a] endures your creature that has been created in it.^(A)

¹⁴ For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

²⁴ “Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.^(A)