Matthew 16:18 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹⁸ But I tell you, your name is Peter, a rock, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not subdue it.

² These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon, who was called Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James the son of Zebedee and his brother John,

²³ And you, Capernaum! Are you to be exalted to the skies? You will go down among the dead! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have stood until today.

¹⁷ If he refuses to listen to them, tell the congregation. And if he refuses to listen to it, treat him as a heathen or a tax-collector.

⁴² He took him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, son of John. You shall be called Cephas"—that is, Peter, which means rock.

²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me, ²⁸ and I give them eternal life, and they shall never be lost, and no one shall tear them out of my hands. ²⁹ What my Father has intrusted to me is of more importance than everything else, and no one can tear anything out of the Father's hands. ³⁰ The Father and I are one."

⁴⁷ constantly praising God and respected by all the people. And every day the Lord added people who were saved to their number.

¹ And Saul entirely approved of his being put to death. A great persecution of the church in Jerusalem broke out that day, and they were all scattered over Judea and Samaria except the apostles.

³³ Who can bring any accusation against those whom God has chosen? God pronounces them upright; ³⁴ who can condemn them? Christ Jesus who died, or rather who was raised from the dead, is at God's right hand, and actually pleads for us. ³⁵ Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can trouble or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword? ³⁶ As the Scripture says, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long, We are treated like sheep to be slaughtered." ³⁷ But in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor their hierarchies nor the present nor the future ³⁹ nor any supernatural forces either of height or depth will be able to separate us from the love God has shown in Christ Jesus our Lord!

⁹ For we are fellow-laborers for God, and you are God's farm, God's building. ¹⁰ Like an expert builder, I laid a foundation, as God commissioned me to do, and now someone else is building upon it. But let everyone be careful how he does so. ¹¹ For no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is laid, that is, Jesus Christ himself.

⁵⁵ Where, Death, is your victory? Where, Death, is your sting?"

⁹ and when they recognized the favor God had shown me, James, Cephas, and John, who were regarded as pillars of the church, pledged Barnabas and me their co-operation, with the understanding that we should work among the heathen and they among the Jews.

¹⁹ So you are no longer foreigners or strangers, but you are fellow-citizens of God's people and members of his family. ²⁰ You are built upon the apostles and prophets as your foundation, and Christ Jesus himself is the cornerstone. ²¹ Through him every part of the building is closely united and grows into a temple sacred through its relation to the Lord, ²² and you are yourselves built up into a dwelling for God through the Spirit.

¹⁰ so that the many-sided wisdom of God may now through the church be made known to the rulers and authorities in heaven,

²⁵ You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her, ²⁶ to consecrate her, after cleansing her with the bath in water through her confession of him, ²⁷ in order to bring the church to himself in all her beauty, without a flaw or a wrinkle or anything of the kind, but to be consecrated and faultless.

³² This is a great secret, but I understand it of Christ and the church.

¹⁸ He is the head of the church, it is his body; for he is the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead—that he might come to stand first in everything.

⁵ for if a man does not know how to conduct his own household, how can he look after a church of God?

¹⁵ so that if I am delayed, you may know how we are to conduct ourselves in the household of God, for it is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

³ For Jesus is entitled to as much more honor than Moses as the builder of a house is than the house he builds. ⁴ For every house has a builder, and the builder of the universe is God.

²⁸ Let us, therefore, be thankful that the kingdom given to us cannot be shaken, and so please God by worshiping him with reverence and awe;

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and loud voices were heard in heaven, saying, "The sovereignty of the world has passed into the possession of our Lord and his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever."

¹ Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. ² And I saw the new Jerusalem, the holy city, come down out of heaven from God, like a bride dressed and ready to meet her husband. ³ I heard a loud voice from the throne say, "See! God's dwelling is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people and God himself will be with them, ⁴ and he will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no death any longer, nor any grief or crying or pain. The old order has passed away."

¹⁴ The wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the Lamb's twelve apostles.