Bible verses about "doors" | Living_Oracles

¹⁹ But a messenger of the Lord, by night, opened the doors of the prison, and bringing them out, said,

³ at the same time, also, praying for us, that God would open to us a door of utterance, to speak the secret of Christ, for which, indeed, I am in bonds;

⁹ For a great and effectual door is opened to me, yet there are many opposers.

⁹ Repine not against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the Judge stands before the door.

¹ After these things, I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as of a trumpet speaking to me; and it said, Come up hither, and I will show you what shall be hereafter.

⁸ However, I shall remain at Ephesus till Pentecost. ⁹ For a great and effectual door is opened to me, yet there are many opposers.

¹³ Enter in through the strait gate; for wide is the gate of perdition, broad is its way leading thither; and many are they who enter by it. ¹⁴ But how strait is the gate of life; how narrow the way leading thither; and how few are they who find it!

⁹ I am the gate: such as enter by me shall be safe: they shall go in and out, and find pasture.

⁶ But you, when you would pray, retire to your closet; and having shut the door, pray to your Father; and your Father, to whom, though he is unseen himself, nothing is secret, will recompense you.

¹ Most assuredly, I say to you, he who enters not by the gate into the sheepfold, but climbs over the fence, is a thief and a robber. ² The shepherd always enters by the gate. ³ To him, the porter opens, and the sheep obey his voice. His own sheep he calls by name, and leads out. ⁴ And having put out his sheep, he walks before them, and they follow him; because they know his voice. ⁵ They will not follow a stranger, but flee from him; because they know not the voice of strangers. ⁶ Jesus addressed this similitude to them, but they did not comprehend what he said. ⁷ He therefore added, Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the gate of the fold. ⁸ All who preceded me were thieves and robbers; but the sheep obeyed them not. ⁹ I am the gate: such as enter by me shall be safe: they shall go in and out, and find pasture. ¹⁰ The thief comes in only to steal, to slay, and to destroy. I am come that they may have life, and have it abundantly. ¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for his sheep. ¹² The hireling, who is not the shepherd, and to whom the sheep do not belong, when he sees the wolf coming, abandons the sheep, and flees; and the wolf tears them, and disperses the flock. ¹³ The hireling flees, because he is a hireling, and cares not for the sheep. ¹⁴ I am the good shepherd. And I know my own, and am known by them, ¹⁵ (even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father;) and I give my life for the sheep. ¹⁶ I have other sheep, besides, which are not of this fold. Them I must also bring; and they will obey my voice; and there shall be one flock, one shepherd. ¹⁷ For this the Father loves me, because I give my life, to be afterward resumed. ¹⁸ No one forces it from me: but I give it of myself. I have power to give it, and I have power to resume it. This commandment I have received from my Father. ¹⁹ Again there was a division among the Jews, occasioned by this discourse. ²⁰ Many of them said, He has a demon, and is mad: why do you hear him? ²¹ Others said, These are not the words of a demonize. Can a demon give sight to the blind? ²² Afterward, when they were celebrating the feast of the dedication, at Jerusalem, ²³ it being in winter; as Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's portico, ²⁴ the Jews surrounding him, said to him, How long will you keep us in suspense? If you be the Messiah, tell us plainly. ²⁵ Jesus answered, I told you; but you believed not. The works which I do in my Father's name, testify of me. ²⁶ But you believe not, for you are not of my sheep. ²⁷ My sheep, as I told you, obey my voice; I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ Besides, I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any one wrest them out of my hands. ²⁹ My Father, who gave them me, is greater than all; and none can wrest them out of my Father's hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one. ³¹ Then the Jews again took up stones to stone him. ³² Jesus said to them, Many good works I have shown you from my Father; for which of these works do you stone me? ³³ The Jews answered, For a good work we do not stone you, but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God. ³⁴ Jesus replied, Is it not written in your law, "I said, You are gods?" ³⁵ If the law styled them gods, to whom the word of God was addressed, and if the language of scripture in unexceptionable; ³⁶ do you charge him with blasphemy whom the Father has consecrated his Apostle to the world, for calling himself his Son? ³⁷ If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. ³⁸ But if I do, though you believe not me, believe the works, that you may know and believe, that the Father is in me, and I am in him. ³⁹ They then attempted again to seize him; but he escaped out of their hands, ⁴⁰ and retired again toward the Jordan, and abode in the place where John first immersed. ⁴¹ And many resorted to him, who said, John, indeed, wrought no miracle: but all that John spoke of this man, is true. ⁴² And many believed on him there.

²⁰ Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any one hear my voice, and open the door, I will enter into his house, and will sup with him, and he with me.

⁷ Ask, and you shall obtain; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.

⁸ I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it; because you have little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.