Matthew 16:19
16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”
Matthew 18:16-18
18:16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that
at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.
18:17 If
he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. If
he refuses to listen to the church, treat him like
a Gentile
or a tax collector.
18:18 “I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.
Matthew 18:20
18:20 For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them.”
Matthew 28:18
28:18 Then Jesus came up and said to them,
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Matthew 28:20
28:20 teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember,
I am with you
always, to the end of the age.”
John 20:23
20:23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven;
if you retain anyone’s sins, they are retained.”
John 20:2
20:2 So she went running
to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
Colossians 2:9-10
2:9 For in him all the fullness of deity lives
in bodily form,
2:10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
Colossians 1:3
Paul’s Thanksgiving and Prayer for the Church
1:3 We always give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
Colossians 1:10
1:10 so that you may live
worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects
– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,