Bible verses about "gatekeepers" | JuliaSmith

¹ The elders among you I beseech, a fellow elder, and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a participator of the glory which is about to be revealed: ² Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will; ³ Neither as ruling over the portions obtained by lot, but being types of the flock. ⁴ And the chief Shepherd having been manifested, ye shall be attired with an unfading crown of glory. ⁵ Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble. ⁶ Therefore be humbled under the strong hand of God, that he might lift you up) in due measure: ⁷ Having cast all your care upon him; for to him is the care for you. ⁸ Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down: ⁹ Whom resist firm in the faith, knowing that the same of sufferings are completed by your brotherhood in the world. ¹⁰ And the God of all grace, having called us to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, may he put you in proper order, having suffered a little time, may he support you, make firm, lay the foundation. ¹¹ To him the glory and the strength for the time of times. Amen. ¹² By Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, I wrote briefly, beseeching, and bearing testimony this to be the true grace of God in which ye stand. ¹³ The chosen together in Babylon, greet you; also Marcus my son. ¹⁴ Greet one another in a kiss of love. Peace to all you which in Christ Jesus. Amen.

¹⁹ And the gate-keepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren watching in the gates, a hundred seventy and two.

¹ Come on now, ye rich, weep, uttering loud cries of grief for the misfortunes coming upon you. ² Your riches have become corrupted, and your garments have been moth eaten; ³ Your gold and silver is become rusty; and their rust shall be for a witness to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have gathered up treasures in the last days. ⁴ Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. ⁵ Ye have led a luxurious life upon the earth, and have rioted in luxury; ye have nourished your hearts, as in the day of slaughter. ⁶ Ye have condemned, ye have killed the just one; and he resists you not. ⁷ Therefore be longsuffering, brethren, even to the arrival of the Lord. Behold, the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, being longsuffering for it, even till he should receive the early and late rain. ⁸ Be longsuffering, ye also; make your hearts firm: for the arrival of the Lord has drawn near. ⁹ Groan not against one another, brethren, that ye be not condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door. ¹⁰ Take a pattern of affliction, my brethren, and of longsuffering, the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ Behold, we esteem those enduring happy. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and ye see the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful. ¹² And before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor any other oath: and let your yea be yea; and nay, nay; that ye fall not under. judgment. ¹³ Does any suffer among you? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him play on the harp. ¹⁴ Is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord: ¹⁵ And the prayer of faith shall save him being sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he should have wrought sins, it shall be remitted to him. ¹⁶ Acknowledge your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that ye might be healed. The prayer of the just, being energetic, is very powerful. ¹⁷ Elias was a man having similar feelings with us, and in prayer he prayed for it not to rain: and it rained not upon the earth for three years and six months. ¹⁸ And again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth shot forth her fruit. ¹⁹ Brethren, if any among you be led astray from the truth, and any should turn him back; ²⁰ Let him know, that he having turned the sinful from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

¹ I Beseech therefore, first of all, supplications to be made, prayers, entreaties, thanks, for all men; ² For kings, and all them being in eminence; that we may lead a gentle and quiet life, in all devotion and gravity. ³ For this good and acceptable before our Saviour God; ⁴ Who wills all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus; ⁶ Having given himself a ransom for all, a testimony in his own time. ⁷ For which I was placed a herald, and the sent, (I speak truth in Christ, I lie not;) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth. ⁸ I will therefore men shall pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without anger and reasoning. ⁹ And likewise the women in well-arranged simplicity, with modesty and discretion, arrange themselves; not in tresses, or gold, or pearls, or expensive clothing; ¹⁰ But (what become women professing religious worship) with good works. ¹¹ Let the woman, in freedom from care, learn in all subjection. ¹² And I trust not the woman to teach, neither to exercise authority over the man, but to be in freedom from care. ¹³ For Adam was first formed, then Eve. ¹⁴ And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, was in the transgression. ¹⁵ And she shall be saved through the bringing forth children, if they remain in faith and love and consecration with discretion.

¹⁰ For good a day in thine enclosures above a thousand. I chose to wait on the threshold in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tents of injustice.

⁶ I appointed those watching over thy walls, O Jerusalem: all the day and all the night continually they shall not be silent: ye remembering Jehovah, no stillness to you. ⁷ And ye shall not give rest to him till he shall prepare, and till he shall set Jerusalem a praise in the earth. ⁸ Jehovah sware by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, If I shall give more thy grain for food to thine enemies, and if the sons of the stranger shall drink thy new wine which thou didst labor for it: ⁹ For they gathering it shall eat it, and praise Jehovah; and they collecting it shall drink it in the enclosures of my holy place. ¹⁰ Pass through, pass through in the gates; clear ye the way of the people; lift up, lift up the highway; free it from stone; raise up a signal for the peoples.