Bible verses about "gatekeepers" | Thomson

¹ With regard to the elders among you, being myself a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a partaker of the glory about to be revealed, I give them this exhortation ² Tend the flock of God which is among you, watching over it, not by constraint, but willingly; not with a view to sordid gain, but with a ready mind; ³ not as exercising dominion over the lots, but as being examples to the flock. ⁴ And when the chief shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive an unfading crown of glory. ⁵ Likewise ye who are young, submit to those more advanced in years. And being all submissive to one another; adorn yourselves with humility; because "God resisteth the proud and granteth favour to the humble;" ⁶ therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may in due time exalt you. ⁷ Having cast all your care upon him, for he careth for you, ⁸ be sober, be watchful: because your adversary the devil is walking about, like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour, ⁹ him you should resist, standing firm in the faith, knowing that the same kind of sufferings are undergone by your brotherhood in the world. ¹⁰ Now may the God of all favour, who hath invited us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, when we have suffered a little may he himself fit, support, strengthen and establish you! ¹¹ To him be the glory and the power, for the ages of the ages. Amen. ¹² By Sylvanus the faithful brother I have, as I reckon, written briefly to you, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true favour of God for which you stand up. ¹³ The congregation at Babylon salute you. So doth Marcus my son. ¹⁴ Salute one another with a holy kiss. Peace be with you all who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

¹⁹ And the keeper of the gates, Akub, Telamin and their brethren, a hundred and seventy two.

¹ Come, now, ye rich; weep, and raise a mournful cry for the miseries which are coming upon you. ² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten. ³ Your gold and your silver are covered with rust; and the rust of them will be a witness against you, and corrode your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. ⁴ Behold the wages of the labourers who have reaped your fields, which you have withholden, raise a cry; and the outcries of these reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. ⁵ You have lived luxuriously on the earth. You have indulged voluptuousness. You have pampered your hearts, as on a day of public feasting. ⁶ You have condemned you have murdered the just one. Is he not setting himself in array against you? ⁷ Wherefore be ye, brethren, patient till the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman expecteth the precious fruits of the earth, waiting for them with patience, until it hath received the former and the latter rain. ⁸ Wait ye also with patience. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near. ⁹ Repine not, brethren, against one another, that you may not be condemned. Behold the judge is at the door. ¹⁰ For an example of enduring adversity, and of long suffering, take, my brethren, the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ Behold we call those sufferers happy. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord's termination" that the Lord is full of compassion and tender mercy. ¹² Now above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your yes, be yes; and your no, no; that you may not fall under condemnation. ¹³ Is any one among you afflicted, let him pray. Is any one cheerful, let him sing praises. ¹⁴ Is any among you sick, let him send for the elders of the congregation, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord. ¹⁵ And the prayer of this faith will cure the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And though he may have committed sin, he will be forgiven. ¹⁶ Confess your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man under the divine impulse is very powerful. ¹⁷ Elias was a man frail and mortal like ourselves. In one prayer he prayed that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the land during three years and six months. ¹⁸ And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the land bloomed with its productions. ¹⁹ Brethren, if any among you hath wandered from the truth and another hath brought him back, ²⁰ let him know that he who hath brought back a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.

¹ I therefore exhort thee first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; ² for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life with all piety and honesty; ³ for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our saviour, ⁴ who willeth all men to be saved, and to come to an acknowledgment of truth. ⁵ For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ⁶ who gave himself as a ransom for all; as the testimony for his own times; ⁷ for which I have been appointed a herald and an apostle, [I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie] a teacher of nations in belief and truth. ⁸ I therefore give it in charge that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and surmise: ⁹ in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in comely apparel, with bashful modesty; not with curls, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; ¹⁰ but with good works, as it becometh women who profess a reverence for God. ¹¹ Let women learn in quietness with all submission. ¹² For I do not allow a woman to teach or to usurp authority over man, but to be in quietness. ¹³ For Adam was formed first, then Eve; ¹⁴ and Adam was not deceived: but the woman being deceived was in transgression, ¹⁵ but to be saved by the child birth, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification, with a sober mind.

¹⁰ Because one day in thy courts is better than a thousand; I had rather be in an abject state in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners.

⁶ Now upon thy walls, Jerusalem, I have set watchmen all the day; and all the night, they will not cease continually to mention the Lord; ⁷ for there is none like you. When he shall have reestablished and made Jerusalem a boast on the earth; ⁸ the Lord hath sworn by his glory and by the power of his arm, I will no more give thy corn and thy food to thine enemies; nor shall the sons of strangers any more drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured. ⁹ But they who reap the harvest shall eat and praise the Lord; and they who gather the vintage shall drink wine in my holy courts. ¹⁰ Go through my gates and prepare the way for my people and throw the stones out of the way. Erect a standard for the nations.