Matthew 16:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And I will give unto 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.

Give

Acts 2:14

Acts 10:34

Acts 15:7

The keys

Revelation 20:1

And whatsoever

General references

Matthew 18:18

John 20:23

Bible References

Give

But Peter, taking his stand with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them: “Men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and give heed to my words.

Opening his mouth, Peter said:

“I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality,

After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brethren, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and believe.

The keys

“Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder,
When he opens no one will shut,
When he shuts no one will open.

and the living One; and I

was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:

He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this:

Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the

bottomless pit was given to him.

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

And whatsoever

Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.

If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained.”

In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

But one whom you forgive anything, I forgive also; for indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.

These have the power to shut up the sky, so that rain will not fall during the days of their prophesying; and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.

General references

Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.

If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained.”