Gate and Door
Entrances that symbolize access, opportunity, and judgment. Jesus declared, 'I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved' (John 10:9) and 'I am the door' (John 10:7, KJV). Matthew 7:13-14 contrasts the wide gate leading to destruction with the narrow gate leading to life. City gates were places of judgment and public business (Ruth 4:1, Proverbs 31:23). Jesus promised, 'The gates of Hades will not overcome' the church (Matthew 16:18). Revelation 3:20 portrays Christ at the door: 'I stand at the door and knock.' The New Jerusalem has twelve gates, 'never shut' (Revelation 21:25), representing eternal access to God's presence.
Verses about Gate and Door
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Numbers 4:26
And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and t…
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Deuteronomy 11:20
And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
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Judges 16:3
And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and…
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1 Samuel 21:13
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall d…
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1 Chronicles 22:3
And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;
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Nehemiah 3:1
Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it…
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Nehemiah 3:3
But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars th…
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Nehemiah 3:6
Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors the…
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Nehemiah 3:13
The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof,…
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Nehemiah 3:14
But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Beth–haccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks ther…
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Nehemiah 3:15
But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col–hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors t…
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Nehemiah 6:1
Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that th…
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Nehemiah 7:3
And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them:…
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Esther 2:21
In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king’s gate, two of the king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, …
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Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
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Psalms 24:7
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
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Psalms 24:9
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
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Proverbs 8:3
She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
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Proverbs 8:34
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
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Ezekiel 8:3
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought …