4 Bible Verses about Shutting The Kingdom

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door to the kingdom from heaven in people's faces. You don't go in yourselves, and you don't allow those who are trying to enter to go in.

"While they were away buying it, the groom arrived. Those who were ready went with him into the wedding banquet, and the door was closed.

"I'll place on his shoulder the key to the house of David what he opens, no one will shut, and what he shuts, no one will open.

"To the messenger of the church in Philadelphia, write: "The one who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens a door that no one can shut, and who shuts a door that no one can open, "says this: