Matthew 16:19
And I will give thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
20Then charged He his disciples that they should tell no one that He was the Messiah.
Cross References
John 20:23and whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; but whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Acts 10:34Then Peter opened his mouth and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
1 Corinthians 5:4when ye are assembled together with my spirit, by the power, I say,
1 Thessalonians 4:8He therefore who rejecteth us, rejecteth not man, but God; who hath given us his holy Spirit.
Revelation 3:7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, These things saith the holy One, He that is true, He that hath the key of David, He that openeth and no one shutteth, and shutteth and no one openeth:
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 →