'Door' in the Bible

But whenever you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

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

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

So also you, when you see all these things, know that he is near, right at the door.

But while they had gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding banquet. Then the door was shut.

The whole town gathered by the door.

So many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by the door, and he preached the word to them.

So they went and found a colt tied at a door, outside in the street, and untied it.

So also you, when you see these things happening, know that he is near, right at the door.

Then he will reply from inside, 'Do not bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything.'

"So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

be like people waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

"Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.

Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him, 'Lord, let us in!' But he will answer you, 'I don't know where you come from.'

"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

So Jesus said to them again, "I tell you the solemn truth, I am the door for the sheep.

I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.

But Simon Peter was left standing outside by the door. So the other disciple who was acquainted with the high priest came out and spoke to the slave girl who watched the door, and brought Peter inside.

Peter then told her, "Why have you agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out!"

On that very night before Herod was going to bring him out for trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, while guards in front of the door were keeping watch over the prison.

When he knocked at the door of the outer gate, a slave girl named Rhoda answered.

Now Peter continued knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were greatly astonished.

When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all the things God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles.

Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

because a door of great opportunity stands wide open for me, but there are many opponents.

Now when I arrived in Troas to proclaim the gospel of Christ, even though the Lord had opened a door of opportunity for me,

At the same time pray for us too, that God may open a door for the message so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.

I know your deeds. (Look! I have put in front of you an open door that no one can shut.) I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed my word and have not denied my name.

Listen! I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home and share a meal with him, and he with me.

After these things I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said: "Come up here so that I can show you what must happen after these things."