The Narrow Way^(A)

^13 (B)“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.

^24 (A)“Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for ^(B)many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. ^25 (C)When once the Master of the house has risen up and ^(D)shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ^(E)‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, ^(F)‘I do not know you, where you are from,’

⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am ^(A)the way, ^(B)the truth, and ^(C)the life. ^(D)No one comes to the Father ^(E)except through Me.

^9 (A)I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

²⁴ And those who are Christ’s ^(A)have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

²⁷ Again, ^(A)when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which he committed, and does what is lawful and right, he preserves himself alive. ²⁸ Because he ^(B)considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die. ^29 (C)Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ O house of Israel, is it not My ways which are fair, and your ways which are not fair?

^30 (D)“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways,” says the Lord God. ^(E)“Repent, and turn from all your transgressions, so that iniquity will not be your ruin. ^31 (F)Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a ^(G)new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel? ³² For ^(H)I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,” says the Lord God. “Therefore turn and ^(I)live!”