18And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
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Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; …
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. …
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
A Song of degrees. They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-20)We have here a private conference which Christ had with his disciples concerning himself. It was in the coasts of Cesarea Philippi, the utmost borders of the land of Canaan northward; there in that remote corner, perhaps, there was less flocking after him than in other places, which gave him leisure for this private conversation with his disciples. Note, When ministers are abridged in their public…
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