Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse XI · §23 · John Wesley

Strive to enter in

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Therefore it is that our Lord so earnestly exhorts: Enter in at the strait gate. Or (as the same exhortation is elsewhere expressed) Strive to enter in (Luke 13:24). Strive as in an agony. For many, says our Lord, shall seek to enter in, indolently strive, and shall not be able.

1771 text

III. 1. Therefore it is, that our Lord so earnestly exhorts, Enter ye in at the strait gate. Or (as the same exhortation is elsewhere expressed) Strive to enter in. Ἀγωνίζεσθε εἰσελθεῖν. Strive as in an agony. For many, saith our Lord, shall seek to enter in, indolently strive, and shall not be able.

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The eleventh sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 7:13-14: the strait gate and the narrow way, and why so few find it.

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Wesley's own sermon in updated English wording. The 1771 panel is the text of the Works Wesley himself had printed in 1771. It is public domain.

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Sermon 31 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 7:13-14.

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