Mat 16:18, Act 13:23, 32-33, Eph 1:3-4, 1Pe 1:5, 10-11 | ESV | STEP | And I tell you , you are Peter , and on this rock I will build my church , and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it .

l Heb. 1:5; 5:5; Cited from Ps. 2:7

m 2 Cor. 1:3; 1 Pet. 1:3

nSee Rom. 15:6

o ver. 20; ch. 2:6; 3:10; 6:12

p[ch. 2:10; 2 Thess. 2:13; 1 Pet. 1:2]

q James 2:5; [Deut. 7:6; 26:18]

r[2 Tim. 1:9]; See Matt. 13:35

s ch. 5:27; Col. 1:22; 1 Thess. 4:7

t Eph. 2:8

u[ch. 5:10; Rom. 8:18; 2 Cor. 4:17; Heb. 12:11]

v 2 Pet. 1:19; [Dan. 8:15; Matt. 13:17; Luke 10:24]

w Dan. 9:24-26

x Rom. 8:9; [2 Pet. 1:21]; See Acts 16:7

ySee Matt. 26:24

z Isa. 52:13–53:12; Luke 24:26; Acts 3:18

Matthew 16:18

18 And I tell you, ^ayou are Peter, and ^bon this rock ^{▼▼The Greek words for Peter and rock sound similar} I will build my church, and ^dthe gates of ^ehell ^{▼▼Greek the gates of Hades} shall not prevail against it.

Acts 13:23

23 ^gOf this man’s offspring God has brought to Israel ^ha Savior, Jesus, ⁱas he promised.

Acts 13:32-33

32 And we bring you the good news ^jthat what God promised to the fathers, 33 ^kthis he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm,

^l“‘You are my Son,
today I have begotten you.’

Ephesians 1:3-4

Spiritual Blessings in Christ

3 ^mBlessed be ⁿthe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing ^oin the heavenly places, 4 ^peven as he ^qchose us in him ^rbefore the foundation of the world, that we should be ^sholy and blameless before him. In love

1 Peter 1:5

5 who by God’s power are being guarded ^tthrough faith for a salvation ^uready to be revealed in the last time.

1 Peter 1:10-11

10 Concerning this salvation, ^vthe prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, 11 inquiring ^wwhat person or time ^xthe Spirit of Christ in them was indicating ^ywhen he predicted ^zthe sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.