Devine Scripture

Matthew 7:14

Matthew chapter 7 · verse 14 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.

Context

v.13Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby.

v.14This passage

v.15Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Romans 9:32

    Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

  • Matthew 20:16

    So the last shall be first, and the first last.

  • Proverbs 8:20

    I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;

  • 1 Peter 3:20

    that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

  • Luke 13:23

    And one said unto him, Lord, are they few that are saved? And he said unto them,

  • John 15:18

    If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.