Bible Verses about โdoorkeepersโ
The Bible contains 44 verses about doorkeepers across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โThe thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.โ
โI and the Father are one."โ
โFor a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.โ
โI give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.โ
โMy sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.โ
โMy Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.โ
โI am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.โ
โI have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.โ
โI am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own;โ
โI am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.โ
โThe gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.โ
โIf he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken),โ
โNo one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."โ
โMany of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?"โ
โJesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"โ
โeven as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.โ
โHe who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.โ
โWhenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.โ
โTherefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.โ
โIt was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.โ
โJesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'โ
โTherefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.โ
โThe Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."โ
โThe hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.โ
โBut if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."โ
โdo you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'โ
โ"Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.โ
โBut one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.โ
โThey will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers."โ
โJesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.โ
โJesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door.โ
โAll who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.โ
โIf I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.โ
โMany came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true."โ
โTherefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.โ
โOthers said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"โ
โIt was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch.โ
โThe Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."โ
โJesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.โ
โBut you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.โ
โThey sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.โ
โHe went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.โ
โMany believed in him there.โ
โThe captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:โ
