Enter through the narrow gate, avoid slothfulness, and know the importance putting effort into your walk before God.
- Matthew 7:13 – “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.”
- Ecclesiastes 7:4 – “The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.”
- Proverbs 16:25 – “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”
- Hosea 4:6 – “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”
- Proverbs 24:30-34 – “I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. Then I saw and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.”
- Proverbs 19:15 – “Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.”
- Proverbs 21:25 – “The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.”
- Proverbs 24:33 – “Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.”
