52 Bible Verses about The Act Of Opening

Ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you;

So I tell you, ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you;

for every one who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.

for everyone who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.

Then to the angel of the church at Philadelphia write thus: ??These are the words of the true Holy One, who holds the key of David, who opens and none shall shut, who shuts and none shall open.

(as it is written in the law of the Lord: every male that opens the womb must be considered consecrated to the Lord)

on reaching the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, they fell down to worship him, and opening their caskets they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.

and he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke poured out of the pit, like the smoke of a huge furnace, till the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

Jesus said, "Remove the boulder." "Lord," said Martha, the dead man's sister, "he will be stinking by this time; he has been dead four days." "Did I not tell you," said Jesus, "if you will only believe, you shall see the glory of God?" Then they removed the boulder, and Jesus, lifting his eyes to heaven, said, "Father, I thank thee for listening to me.

On the first day of the week Mary of Magdala went early to the tomb, when it was still dark; but as she saw the boulder had been removed from the tomb,

They said to themselves, "Who will roll away the boulder for us at the opening of the tomb?" (for it was a very large boulder). But when they looked they saw the boulder had been rolled to one side,

The boulder they found rolled away from the tomb,

the tombs were opened, and a number of bodies of the saints who slept the sleep of death rose up ??53 they left the tombs after his resurrection and entered the holy city and appeared to a number of people.

and as they could not get near Jesus on account of the crowd they tore up the roof under which he stood and through the opening they lowered the pallet on which the paralytic lay.

When they had passed the first guard and the second they came to the iron gate leading into the city, which opened to them of its own accord; they passed out, and after they had gone through one street, the angel immediately left him.

but as soon as she recognized Peter's voice, instead of opening the door she ran inside from sheer joy and announced that Peter was standing in front of the porch.

Then the temple of God in heaven was thrown open, and the ark of his covenant was seen inside his temple; there were flashes of lightning, loud blasts, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a hailstorm.

After that I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of testimony in heaven was thrown open,

(the gates of it will never be shut by day, and night there shall be none),

After this I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard talking with me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must come to pass after this."

Now when Jesus had been baptized, the moment he rose out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove upon him.

And the moment he rose from the water he saw the heavens cleft and the Spirit coming down upon him like a dove;

Now when all the people had been baptized and when Jesus had been baptized and was praying, heaven opened

He said to him, "Truly, truly I tell you all, you shall see heaven open wide and God's angels ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

"Look," he said, "I see heaven open and the Son of man standing at God's right hand!"

He saw heaven open and a vessel coming down, like a huge sheet lowered by the four corners to the earth,

Then I saw heaven open wide ??and there was a white horse: his rider is faithful and true, yea, just are his judgments and his warfare.

And I saw a strong angel exclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is fit to open the scroll, to break the seals of it?"

but one of the Presbyters told me, "Weep not; lo, the Lion of Judah's tribe, the Scion of David, he has won the power of opening the scroll and its seven seals."

and was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah; on opening the book he came upon the place where it was written,

But no one was fit, either in heaven or on earth or underneath the earth, to open the scroll or look into it. So I began to weep bitterly because no one had been found fit to open the scroll or look into it;

singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

and a small scroll open in his hand. He set his right foot on the sea, his left upon the earth,

Then the voice I had heard from heaven again talked to me, saying, "Go and take the small scroll which lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and the earth."

And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened ??also another book, the book of Life, was opened ??and the dead were judged by what was written in these books, by what they had done.

And when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, I looked, and I heard one of the four living Creatures calling like thunder, "Come."

And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living Creature calling, "Come."

And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living Creature calling, "Come." So I looked and there was a black horse; its rider held a pair of scales in his hand,

And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living Creature calling, "Come."

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain for adhering to God's word and to the testimony which they bore;

And when he opened the sixth seal, I looked; and a great earthquake took place, the sun turned black as sackcloth, the full moon turned like blood,

And when he opened the seventh seal, silence reigned in heaven for about half-an-hour.

Lo, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and sup with him, and he with me.

and be like men who are expecting their lord and master on his return from a marriage-banquet, so as to open the door for him at once when he comes and knocks.

The gate-keeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice; he calls his sheep by name and leads them out.

Among the listeners there was a woman called Lydia, a dealer in purple who belonged to the town of Thyatira. She reverenced God, and the Lord opened her heart to attend to what Paul said.

But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door they were amazed to see him.

Afterwards the rest of the maidens came and said, 'Oh sir, oh sir, open the door for us!'

once the master of the House has got up and closed the door. You may stand outside and knock at the door, crying, 'Lord, open for us,' but he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.'

and looking up to heaven with a sigh he said to him, "Ephphatha" (which means, Open).

but an angel of the Lord opened the prison-doors during the night and brought them out, saying,

Lo, I have set a door open before you which no one is able to shut; for though your strength is small, you have kept my word, you have not renounced my Name.