Matthew 16:19

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,

The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters.

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

I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.

He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”

For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life;

The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

“I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,

They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,

God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him.

saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”

The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)”

seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

The priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body. If the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; so the priest shall examine him and pronounce him unclean.

He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.

When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.

Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.

These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.

“It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.