Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Door » Figurative » Of opportunity
I know your works. Behold, I have given before you an open door, and no one can shut it. For you have a little strength and have kept My Word and have not denied My name.
For a great and effective door opened to me, and many are opposing.
Hindrances » Opposers » Examples of
And He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
And they resisting and blaspheming, shaking his garment, he said to them, Your blood is on your own heads. I am pure from it. From now on I will go to the nations.
But as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also resist the truth, men of corrupt mind, reprobate concerning the faith.
And all of them conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem and do harm to it.
But Elymas the conjurer (for so his name is, if translated) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
For a great and effective door opened to me, and many are opposing.
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building.
Missionary-work by ministers » Opportunities for, not to be neglected
For a great and effective door opened to me, and many are opposing.
Open door » An open door of opportunity
I know your works. Behold, I have given before you an open door, and no one can shut it. For you have a little strength and have kept My Word and have not denied My name.
For a great and effective door opened to me, and many are opposing.
And, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,
Opportunity » Lost, by indifference or neglect » An open door of
I know your works. Behold, I have given before you an open door, and no one can shut it. For you have a little strength and have kept My Word and have not denied My name.
For a great and effective door opened to me, and many are opposing.
And, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,
Opposers » Opposers, hinder religious work » Examples of
And He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
And they resisting and blaspheming, shaking his garment, he said to them, Your blood is on your own heads. I am pure from it. From now on I will go to the nations.
But as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also resist the truth, men of corrupt mind, reprobate concerning the faith.
And all of them conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem and do harm to it.
But Elymas the conjurer (for so his name is, if translated) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
For a great and effective door opened to me, and many are opposing.
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building.
Paul » Rebukes
And certain from the strolling Jews, exorcists, undertook to name the name of the Lord Jesus over those having evil spirits, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches. And there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. But answering the evil spirit said, Jesus I know, and I comprehend Paul, but who are you? read more.
And the man in whom the evil spirit resided leaped on them, and overcoming them he was strong against them, so that they fled out of the house naked and wounded. And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks who lived at Ephesus, and fear fell on all of them, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. And many who believed came and confessed and showed their deeds. Also many of those practicing the curious arts, bringing together the books, burned them before all. And they counted the prices of them and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the Word of God grew mightily and prevailed.
And the man in whom the evil spirit resided leaped on them, and overcoming them he was strong against them, so that they fled out of the house naked and wounded. And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks who lived at Ephesus, and fear fell on all of them, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. And many who believed came and confessed and showed their deeds. Also many of those practicing the curious arts, bringing together the books, burned them before all. And they counted the prices of them and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the Word of God grew mightily and prevailed.
But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost. For a great and effective door opened to me, and many are opposing.