17 Jesus responded, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah,[a](A) because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven.(B) 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church,(C) and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven,(D) and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound[b] in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will have been loosed[c] in heaven.”

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Footnotes

  1. 16:17 Or son of John
  2. 16:19 Or earth will be bound
  3. 16:19 Or earth will be loosed

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