““Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and will not be able;”— Luke 13:24 (LSV)
21It is like leaven, which a woman, having taken, hid in three measures of meal, until all was leavened.”
22And He was going through cities and villages, teaching, and making progress toward Jerusalem;
23and a certain one said to Him, “Lord, are those saved few?” And He said to them,
24“Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and will not be able;
25from the time the Master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and you may begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and He answering will say to you, I have not known you from where you are,
26then you may begin to say, We ate before You, and drank, and You taught in our broad places;
27and He will say, I say to you, I have not known you from where you are; depart from Me, all you workers of the unrighteousness.