52 Bible Verses about The Act Of Opening

Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and ye will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

And I say to you, Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and ye will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, the door will be opened.

For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, the door will be opened.

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who hath the key of David; he who openeth, and no one shall shut; and shutteth, and no one shall open:

as it is written in the law of the Lord: "Every firstborn male shall be called holy to the Lord,"

and when they had come into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and did homage to him; and opening their treasures, they presented him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.

and he opened the pit of the abyss. And there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

Jesus saith, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith to him, Lord, by this time the body is offensive; for he hath been dead four days. Jesus saith to her, Did I not tell thee, that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God? They therefore took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father! I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

But on the first day of the week Mary the Magdalene cometh early, while it was yet dark, to the tomb, and seeth that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

And they said to one another, Who will roll away for us the stone from the door of the tomb? And looking up they see that the stone had been rolled back; for it was very large.

And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb;

and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of holy men that slept, arose,

And not being able to bring him to him on account of the crowd, they took off the roof where he was; and when they had broken an opening, they let down the bed whereon the palsied man lay.

And when they had passed the first, and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leadeth to the city, which opened to them of itself; and they went out and passed on through one street, and the angel immediately departed from him.

and recognizing Peters voice, she opened not the gate for gladness; but ran in, and told them that Peter was standing before the gate.

And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of his covenant was seen in his temple; and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.

And after these things I saw, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened;

and the gates of it shall not be shut by day, for there will be no night there;

After this I saw, and lo! an open door in heaven; and the former voice, which I heard as of a trumpet speaking with me, said, Come up hither, and I will show thee what things must take place after these.

And Jesus, as soon as he was baptized, went up from the water; and, lo! the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God, descending like a dove, coming upon him.

And immediately on coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens parted, and the Spirit descending as a dove upon him.

And it came to pass, when all the people had been baptized, and Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying, that the heaven was opened,

And he saith to him, Truly, truly do I say to you, Ye will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

and said, Lo, I behold the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

and he beheld heaven opened, and a sort of vessel descending, as it were a large sheet having cords at the four corners, and let down upon the earth;

And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose its seals?

And one of the elders saith to me, Weep not; behold, the Lion that is of the tribe of Judah, the shoot from David, conquered, he that openeth the book, and its seven seals.

And there was delivered to him the book of the prophet Isaiah; and unrolling the book, he found the place where it was written,

And no one in heaven, nor on the earth, nor under the earth, was able to open the book, nor to look thereon. And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, nor to look thereon.

And they sing a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals; for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed to God by thy blood men out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

And he had in his hand a little book open. And he set his right foot upon the sea, and the left upon the land;

And the voice which I heard out of heaven I heard again speaking to me, and saying: Go, take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel who is standing upon the sea, and upon the land.

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

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard, as it were the voice of thunder, one of the four living creatures saying, Come!

And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, Come!

And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, Come! And I saw, and lo! a black horse, and he that sat on him, having a pair of scales in his hand.

And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, Come!

And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain on account of the word of God, and on account of the testimony which they had borne;

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

And when be had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about haft an hour.

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock; if any one hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

and be yourselves like men waiting for the return of their lord from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately.

To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice; and his own sheep he calleth by name, and leadeth them out.

And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, was listening; whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things which were spoken by Paul.

But Peter continued knocking; and opening the door, they saw him, and were amazed.

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

When once the master of the house shall have risen, and shut the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I know not whence ye are;

and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

But an angel of the Lord in the night opened the prisondoors, and brought them forth and said,

I know thy works; behold, I have set before thee an open door, which no one can shut; for thou hast little power, and yet hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.