doors

⁸I know your works. Behold, I have set an open door before you, which no one is able to close. For you have little power, and you have observed my word, and you have not denied my name.

⁷Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

²⁰Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone will hear my voice and will open the door to me, I will enter to him, and I will dine with him, and he with me.

¹“Amen, amen, I say to you, he who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up by another way, he is a thief and a robber. ²But he who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. ³To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name, and he leads them out. ⁴And when he has sent out his sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. ⁵But they do not follow a stranger; instead they flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.” ⁶Jesus spoke this proverb to them. But they did not understand what he was saying to them.

⁹I am the door. If anyone has entered through me, he will be saved. And he shall go in and go out, and he shall find pastures.

⁷Lift up your gates, you princes, and be lifted up, eternal gates. And the King of Glory shall enter.

³⁴Blessed is the man who listens to me, and who stands watch at my gates every day, and who observes at the posts of my doors.

⁶But you, when you pray, enter into your room, and having shut the door, pray to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.

⁹For a door, great and unavoidable, has opened to me, as well as many adversaries.

¹⁵And I will give to her, from the same place, her vinedressers, and the valley of Achor as a passage of hope. And she will sing there as in the days of her youth, and as in the days of her ascension from the land of Egypt.

¹³Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate, and broad is the way, which leads to perdition, and many there are who enter through it. ¹⁴How narrow is the gate, and how straight is the way, which leads to life, and few there are who find it!

⁸But I must remain at Ephesus, even until Pentecost. ⁹For a door, great and unavoidable, has opened to me, as well as many adversaries.

²²And I will place the key of the house of David upon his shoulder. And when he opens, no one will close. And when he closes, no one will open.

⁹Brothers, do not complain against one another, so that you may not be judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.

¹After these things, I saw, and behold, a door was opened in heaven, and the voice that I heard speaking with me first was like a trumpet, saying: “Ascend to here, and I will reveal to you what must occur after these things.”

³O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips.

⁷If you behave well, will you not receive? But if you behave badly, will not sin at once be present at the door? And so its desire will be within you, and you will be dominated by it.”

³Pray together, for us also, so that God may open a door of speech to us, so as to speak the mystery of Christ, (because of which, even now, I am in chains)

¹²And when I had arrived at Troas, because of the Gospel of Christ, and a door had opened to me in the Lord,

¹⁹But in the night, an Angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison and led them out, saying,