But now, since I have no more any "opening" in these parts, and since I have longed for many years to come to you

That command gave sin an opening, and it led me to all sorts of covetous ways, for sin is lifeless without law.

The command gave sin an opening and sin deceived me and killed me with it.

but now is opened at this time and declared opened by the scriptures of prophecy, at the commandment of the everlasting God, to stir up obedience to the faith published among all nations:

Gaius, with whom I am living, whose house is open to all the church, sends his love, so does Erastus, the manager of the accounts of the town, and Quartus, the brother.

At all times in my prayers, - making supplication - if, by some means, even now, at any time, I may have a way opened, in the will of God, to come unto you;

A sepulchre opened, is their throat, with their tongues, have they used deceit, the poison of asps, is under their lips,