Bible Verses about “gatekeepers”

“Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”

“Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:”

“Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.”

“And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.”

“¶ But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and [your] nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.”

“Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.”

“For a day in thy courts [is] better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.”

“Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.”

“Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;”

“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.”

“¶ Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].”

“Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.”

“Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.”

“Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.”

“Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you.”

“And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.”

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

“Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.”

“Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.”

“Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.”

“Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.”

“¶ I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,”

“Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.”

“All these [which were] chosen to be porters in the gates [were] two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.”

“[And] Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah [was] porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.”

“So they and their children [had] the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD, [namely], the house of the tabernacle, by wards.”

“In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.”

“And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”

“And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, [and] the LORD [was] with him.”

“The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn [to be] meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:”

“But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.”

“¶ Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.”

“Who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they [were] porters in the companies of the children of Levi.”

“And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, [were] over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, [being] over the host of the LORD, [were] keepers of the entry.”

“And the porters [were], Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum [was] the chief;”

“And their brethren, [which were] in their villages, [were] to come after seven days from time to time with them.”

“For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in [their] set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.”

“And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge [was] upon them, and the opening thereof every morning [pertained] to them.”

“So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, [there was] no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they [were].”

“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:”

“Moreover four thousand [were] porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, [said David], to praise [therewith].”

“¶ Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites [was] Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.”

“And the sons of Meshelemiah [were], Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,”

“Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.”

“Moreover the sons of Obededom [were], Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth,”

“Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed him.”

“Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they [were] mighty men of valour.”

“The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren [were] strong men, Elihu, and Semachiah.”

“All these of the sons of Obededom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men for strength for the service, [were] threescore and two of Obededom.”

“And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen.”