Matthew 16:19

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Matthew 16:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible

17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven.

18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

20 Then He admonished the disciples not to tell anyone that He was the Christ.

21 From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

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Acts 2:14

Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, lifted up his voice, and addressed the crowd: “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen carefully to my words.

Acts 2:15

These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only the third hour of the day!

Acts 2:16

No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

Acts 2:17

‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

Acts 2:18

Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

Acts 2:19

I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.

Acts 2:20

The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord.

Acts 2:21

And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

Acts 2:22

Men of Israel, listen to this message: Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know.

Acts 2:23

He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

Acts 2:24

But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.

Acts 2:25

David says about Him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

Acts 2:26

Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell in hope,

Acts 2:27

because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

Acts 2:28

You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’

Acts 2:29

Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Acts 2:30

But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

Acts 2:31

Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.

Acts 2:32

God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.

Acts 2:33

Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

Acts 2:34

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand

Acts 2:35

until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”’

Acts 2:36

Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”

Acts 2:37

When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

Acts 2:38

Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 2:39

This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

Acts 2:40

With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”

Acts 2:41

Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.

Acts 2:42

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Acts 10:34

Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,

Acts 10:35

but welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right.

Acts 10:36

He has sent this message to the people of Israel, proclaiming the gospel of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.

Acts 10:37

You yourselves know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee with the baptism that John proclaimed:

Acts 10:38

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

Acts 10:39

We are witnesses of all that He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And although they put Him to death by hanging Him on a tree,

Acts 10:40

God raised Him up on the third day and caused Him to be seen—

Acts 10:41

not by all the people, but by the witnesses God had chosen beforehand, by us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.

Acts 10:42

And He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that He is the One appointed by God to judge the living and the dead.

Acts 10:43

All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”

Acts 15:7

After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.

Isaiah 22:22

I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.

Revelation 1:18

the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.

Revelation 3:7

To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.

Revelation 9:1

Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss.

Revelation 20:1

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.

Revelation 20:2

He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

Revelation 20:3

And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the thousand years were complete. After that, he must be released for a brief period of time.

Matthew 18:18

Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

John 20:23

If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you withhold forgiveness from anyone, it is withheld.”

1 Corinthians 5:4

When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,

1 Corinthians 5:5

hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 2:10

If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And if I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven it in the presence of Christ for your sake,

1 Thessalonians 4:8

Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.

Revelation 11:6

These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.