51 Bible Verses about The Act Of Opening

Ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you.

So I tell you, ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you.

For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.

For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.

"To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: " 'He who is holy and true, who carries the key of David, who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open, speaks thus:

in fulfilment of the requirement of the Law of the Lord, "Every first-born male shall be considered consecrated to the Lord,"

and they went into the house and saw the child with his mother, Mary, and they threw themselves down and did homage to him. They opened their treasure boxes and presented the child with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

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

Jesus said, "Move the stone away." The dead man's sister, Martha, said to him, "Master, by this time he is decaying, for he has been dead four days." Jesus said to her, "Have I not promised you that if you will believe in me you will see the glory of God?" So they moved the stone away. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for listening to me,

On the day after the Sabbath, very early in the morning while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and she saw that the stone had been removed from it.

And they said to one another, "Who will roll the stone back from the doorway of the tomb for us?" And they looked up and saw that the stone had been rolled back, for it was very large.

But they found the stone rolled back from the tomb,

the tombs opened, and many of the saints who had fallen asleep rose

As they could not get him near Jesus on account of the crowd, they broke open the roof just over his head, and through the opening they lowered the mat with the paralytic lying on it.

They passed the first guard and then the second, and came to the iron gate that led into the city. It opened to them of itself, and they passed out and went along one street, when suddenly the angel left him.

and when she recognized Peter's voice, in her joy she did not stop to open the door, but ran in and told them that Peter was standing outside.

Then the temple of God in heaven was thrown open, and the chest containing his agreement was seen inside the temple, and there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a great storm of hail.

Afterward I saw the temple, that is, the tent of the testimony, thrown open in heaven,

Its gates will never be shut by day??or there will be no night there

Afterward I had another vision: There was a door standing open in the heavens and the first voice like a trumpet that I had heard speak to me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place."

And when Jesus was baptized, he went right up out of the water, and the heavens opened, and he saw the Spirit of God come down like a dove and light upon him,

And just as he was coming up out of the water he saw the heavens torn open and the Spirit coming down like a dove to enter into him,

Now when all the people were baptized and when Jesus also after his baptism was praying, heaven opened

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

and saw the sky opened and a thing like a great sheet coming down, lowered to the ground by the four corners,

Then I saw heaven thrown open and there appeared a white horse. His rider was called Faithful and True, and he judges and wages war in uprightness.

And I saw a mighty angel announcing in a loud voice, "Who is fit to open the roll and break its seals?"

But one of the elders said to me, "Do not cry! See! The lion who is of the tribe of Judah, of the line of David, has been victorious so that he can open the roll and break its seals."

And the roll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, and he unrolled it and found the place where it says,

But no one in heaven or on earth or underneath the earth could open the roll or look into it. Then I cried bitterly because no one could be found fit to open the roll or look into it.

Then they sang a new song: "You deserve to take the roll and open its seals, for you have been slaughtered, and with your blood have bought for God men from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation,

and he had a little scroll open in his hand. He set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,

Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, and said, "Go and take the little scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."

I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened; it was the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books about what they had done.

In my vision, when the Lamb broke the first of the seven seals, I heard the first of the four animals say with a voice like thunder, "Come!"

When he broke the second seal, I heard the second animal say, "Come!"

When he broke the third seal, I heard the third animal say, "Come!" And there I saw a black horse, and its rider had a pair of scales in his hand,

When he broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth animal say, "Come!"

When he broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who have been slaughtered on account of God's message and for adhering to the testimony.

When he broke the sixth seal I saw that there was a great earthquake. The sun turned black as sackcloth; the full moon became like blood;

When he broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

Here I stand knocking at the door. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will be his guest and dine with him, and he with me.

like men waiting for their master to come home from a wedding, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

The watchman opens the door to him, and the sheep obey his voice, and he calls to his own sheep and leads them out.

One of our hearers was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple goods, from the town of Thyatira. She was a believer in God, and the Lord touched her heart, and led her to accept Paul's teaching.

But Peter kept on knocking. And when they opened the door and saw him they were amazed.

Afterward the other bridesmaids came and said, 'Sir! Sir! Open the door for us!'

when the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock on the door, and say, 'Open it for us, sir!' Then he will answer you and say, 'I do not know where you come from,'

And he looked up to heaven and sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!"??hich means "Open."

But an angel of the Lord opened the jail doors in the night and let them out, and said to them,

I know what you are doing. See! I have put before you an open door that no one can close. I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed my message and you have not disowned my name.