Matthew 16:19
I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of the Heavens; and whatever you bind on earth shall remain bound in Heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall remain loosed in Heaven."
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
20Then He urged His disciples to tell no one that He was the Christ.
Cross References
John 20:23If you remit the sins of any persons, they remain remitted to them. If you bind fast the sins of any, they remain bound."
Acts 10:34Then Peter began to speak. "I clearly see," he said, "that God makes no distinctions between one man and another;
1 Corinthians 5:4In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are all assembled and my spirit is with you, together with the power of our Lord Jesus,
1 Thessalonians 4:8Therefore a defiant spirit in such a case provokes not man but God, who puts His Holy Spirit into your hearts.
Revelation 3:7"To the minister of the Church at Philadelphia write as follows: "`This is what the holy One and the true says--He who has the key of David--He who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 16:14-21
Christ's Conference with His Disciples. 13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Cæsarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? 14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. 15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood… Read the whole commentary →