Matthew 16:17-19
17And Jesus answered him, a“Blessed are you, bSimon Bar-Jonah! For cflesh and blood has not revealed this to you, dbut my Father who is in heaven. 18And I tell you, eyou are Peter, and fon this rock ▼ I will build my church, and hthe gates of ihell ▼▼Greek the gates of Hades
shall not prevail against it. 19I will give you kthe keys of the kingdom of heaven, and lwhatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed ▼▼Or shall have been bound . . . shall have been loosed
in heaven.”
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