Bible verses about "gatekeepers" | Worrell

¹ The elders, therefore, I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of Christ's sufferings, also a partaker of the glory about to be revealed; ² feed the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it, not by constraint, but willingly; nor yet for base gain, but of a ready mind; ³ neither as lording it over the allotted charges, but becoming examples to the flock; ⁴ and, when the Chief Shepherd is manifested, ye will obtain the unfading crown of glory. ⁵ Likewise, ye younger, be subject to the elder; yea, all of you gird on the lowly mind to serve one another; because "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the lowly." ⁶ Be humbled, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due season; ⁷ having cast all your anxiety on Him, because He careth for you. ⁸ Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, is going about, seeking whom he may devour; ⁹ whom resist, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same kinds of sufferings are being accomplished in your brethren who are in the world. ¹⁰ And the God of all grace, Who called you into His everlasting glory in Christ, after ye have suffered a little while, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen, settle you. ¹¹ To Him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen. ¹² Through Sylvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I wrote to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God; within which stand ye. ¹³ The assembly in Babylon, elected with you, and Mark my son, salute you. ¹⁴ Salute ye one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ.

¹ Come now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you! ² Your wealth has become corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and silver are covered with rust, and their rust will be for a witness against you, and will eat your flesh, as fire. Ye laid up treasures in the last days! ⁴ Behold, the hire of the workmen who mowed down your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, is crying out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. ⁵ Ye lived luxuriously on the earth, and rioted in pleasure; ye nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. ⁶ Ye condemned, ye killed the righteous one; he does not resist you. ⁷ Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth; being patient over it, until it receives the early and latter rain. ⁸ Be ye also patient; establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has drawn near. ⁹ Murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye be not judged: behold, The Judge has taken His stand before the doors! ¹⁰ Take, brethren, as an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ Behold, we pronounce those happy who endured: ye heard of the patience of Job; and ye saw the end of the Lord, that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful. ¹² But above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by Heaven, or by earth, or by any other oath; but let yours be "the yes, yes," and "the no, no"; that ye fall not under condemnation. ¹³ Is anyone among you afflicted? let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? let him sing praise. ¹⁴ Is anyone among you sick? let him call for the elders of the assembly; and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord; ¹⁵ and the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and, if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. ¹⁶ Confess, therefore, your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. A righteous man's inwrought supplication avails much. ¹⁷ Elijah was a man of like nature with us; and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months; ¹⁸ and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit. ¹⁹ My brethren, if anyone among you be led astray from the truth, and one convert him; ²⁰ let him know that he who converted a sinner from the error of his way, will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.

¹ I exhort, therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; ² for kings, and all who are in high position, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity. ³ This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, ⁴ Who wisheth all men to be saved, and to come into a full knowledge of truth. ⁵ For there is one God, one Mediator also between God and men, a Man, Christ Jesus, ⁶ Who gave Himself a ransom for all, the testimony for its own times, ⁷ whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak truth, I lie not), a teacher of gentiles in faith and truth. ⁸ I desire, therefore, that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing; ⁹ in like manner, that women adorn themselves in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety, not with braided hair, and gold, or pearls, or costly raiment, ¹⁰ but (which becomes women professing godliness) through good works. ¹¹ Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection. ¹² But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness. ¹³ For Adam first was formed, then Eve. ¹⁴ And Adam was not deceived; but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into transgression. ¹⁵ But she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they abide in faith, and love, and holiness, with sobriety.