100 Bible Verses about The Act Of Opening

"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

"I tell you, ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

"To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: "These are the words of the Holy One, the True One, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens:

It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.

"Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine."

that you shall set apart to the LORD all that opens the womb, and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal. The males shall be the LORD's.

Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open."

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.

(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"),

As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

Then they hurried, and every man took his sack down to the ground, and every man opened his sack.

When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.

The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. And she had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

And they came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.

"If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,

He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the shaft, like the smoke from a great furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.

Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me."

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days." Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see God's glory?" So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

They were saying among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?" for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.

They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

Then he said to me, "Son of man, dig now in the wall": and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door.

Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that way.

I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.

"The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.

You saw the breaches of the City of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD."

It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

And when they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof above him. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.

When the prince shall prepare a freewill offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the LORD, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.

When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them and praise the LORD.

Lift up your heads, you gates. Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

Lift up your heads, you gates; lift them up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.

Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.

The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

When she recognized Peter's voice, she did not open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.

Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.

He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

God's temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.

After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.

"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

I said to them, "Do not let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house."

Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, "Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this."

And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and suddenly the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

And he said to him, "Truly, truly, I tell you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."

He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says the LORD of hosts, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:

I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the scroll, and to break its seals?"

One of the elders said to me, "Do not weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals."

A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The court sat in judgment, and the books were opened.

The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the scroll, and found the place where it was written,

No one in heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the scroll, or to look in it. And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll, or to look in it.

They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and redeemed us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

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

The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, "Go, take the scroll which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land."

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, "Come."

When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come."

When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come." And I saw, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand.

When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, "Come."

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they had.

I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.

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

I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Memphis shall have adversaries in the daytime.

Therefore prophesy, and tell them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

You shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.

I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

(and behold, a talent of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah basket."

It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

He said, "Open the window eastward"; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, "Shoot." and he shot. He said, "The LORD's arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you shall strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you have consumed them."

Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

Be like people watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.

Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.'

When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us.' then he will answer and tell you, 'I do not know you or where you come from.'

Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha." that is, "Be opened."

The breaker goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. And their king passes on before them, with the LORD at their head.

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,

"I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and did not deny my name.