'Door' in the Bible

But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

“Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

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

In the same way, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near—at the door!

“When they had gone to buy some, the groom arrived. Then those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.

The whole town was assembled at the door,

and kept begging Him, “My little daughter is at death’s door. Come and lay Your hands on her so she can get well and live.”

So they went and found a young donkey outside in the street, tied by a door. They untied it,

In the same way, when you see these things happening, know that He is near—at the door!

because he had an only daughter about 12 years old, and she was at death’s door.While He was going, the crowds were nearly crushing Him.

Then he will answer from inside and say, ‘Don’t bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I have gone to bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.’

“So I say to you, keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

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

You must be like people waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you, many will try to enter and won’t be able

once the homeowner gets up and shuts the door. Then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up for us!’ He will answer you, ‘I don’t know you or where you’re from.’

“I assure you: Anyone who doesn’t enter the sheep pen 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.

So Jesus said again, “I assure you: I am the door of the sheep.

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

But Peter remained standing outside by the door. So the other disciple, the one known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the girl who was the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.

Then Peter said to her, “Why did you agree 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 the night before Herod was to bring him out for execution, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while the sentries in front of the door guarded the prison.

He knocked at the door in the gateway, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer.

Peter, however, kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded.

After they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported everything God had done with them and that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

So he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

because a wide door for effective ministry has opened for me—yet many oppose me.

When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, the Lord opened a door for me.

At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the message, to speak the mystery of the Messiah, for which I am in prison,

Brothers, do not complain about one another, so that you will not be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door!

I know your works. Because you have limited strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name, look, I have placed before you an open door that no one is able to close.

Listen! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and have dinner with him, and he with Me.

After this I looked, and there in heaven was an open door. The first voice that I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”