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.

"We found the prison securely locked up, with the sentries on duty at the doors, but on opening the doors we found no one inside."

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.

When I went to Troas to preach the good news of the Christ there, I found a good opening for the Lord's work,

but I was lowered in a basket from an opening in the wall, and got out of his clutches.

Pray for me too, that God may give me an opening for the message, and let me tell the secret of Christ on account of which I am kept in prison

and a young man named Eutychus, who was sitting at the window, became very drowsy as Paul's address grew longer and longer, and finally went fast asleep and fell from the third story to the ground, and was picked up for dead.

"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:

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.