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23 Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?”

He replied, 24 “Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many will try to enter but will fail. 25 When the master of the house has locked the door, it will be too late. You will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Lord, open the door for us!’ But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’ 26 Then you will say, ‘But we ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 And he will reply, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you or where you come from. Get away from me, all you who do evil.’

28 “There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, for you will see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, but you will be thrown out. 29 And people will come from all over the world—from east and west, north and south—to take their places in the Kingdom of God. 30 And note this: Some who seem least important now will be the greatest then, and some who are the greatest now will be least important then.[a]

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  1. 13:30 Greek Some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.

23 And someone said to him, “Lord, (A)will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them, 24 (B)“Strive (C)to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 25 (D)When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, (E)‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, (F)‘I do not know where you come from.’ 26 Then you will begin to say, (G)‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will say, ‘I tell you, (H)I do not know where you come from. (I)Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’ 28 (J)In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see (K)Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but (L)you yourselves cast out. 29 And (M)people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and (N)recline at table in the kingdom of God. 30 And behold, (O)some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

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