18 And I also say to thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of the underworld shall not prevail against it.
Matthew 16:18 Cross References - ABU
Matthew 10:2
2 And the names of the twelve apostles are these; first Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;
Matthew 11:23
23 And thou, Capernaum, that wast exalted to heaven, shalt go down to the underworld. For if the miracles, that were done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
Matthew 18:17
17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church; and if he neglect to hear the church also, let him be to thee as a heathen and a publican.
John 1:42
42 And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus, beholding him, said: Thou art Simon the son of Jonah; thou shalt be called Cephas, which is interpreted, Peter.
John 10:27-30
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;
28 and I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one pluck them out of my hand.
29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
30 I and the Father are one.
Acts 2:47
47 praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who are saved.
Acts 8:1
1 AND Saul was consenting to his death. And on that day there arose a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and all were scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
Romans 8:33-39
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's chosen? God is he that justifies;
34 who is he that condemns? Christ is he that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written: For, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities nor powers, neither things present nor things to come,
39 neither height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Corinthians 3:9-11
9 For we are God's fellow-laborers; ye are God's field, God's building.
10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master-builder I laid a foundation, and another builds thereon. But let each one take heed how he builds thereon.
11 For other foundation can no one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:55
55 Where, O death, is thy sting? Where, O death, is thy victory?
Galatians 2:9
9 and having learned the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas right hands of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;
Ephesians 2:19-22
19 So then ye are no longer strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20 having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner-stone;
21 in whom all the building, fitly framed together, grows unto a holy temple in the Lord;
22 in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
Ephesians 3:10
10 that now, to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,
Ephesians 5:25-27
25 Husbands, love your wives, as also Christ loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bathing of water in the word,
27 that he might himself present to himself the church, glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it may be holy and blameless.
Ephesians 5:32
32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking of Christ and of the church.
Colossians 1:18
18 And he is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; that he may become in all things pre-eminent.
1 Timothy 3:5
5 (but if one knows not how to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
1 Timothy 3:15
15 but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Hebrews 3:3-4
Hebrews 12:28
28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom which can not be shaken, let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear;
Revelation 11:15
15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed loud voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of the world is become our Lord's, and his Christ's; and he will reign forever and ever.
Revelation 21:1-4
1 AND I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and the sea is no more.
2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, saying: Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and GOD-WITH-THEM himself will he their God.
4 And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more, nor shall mourning, nor crying, nor pain be any more; because the former things are passed away.
Revelation 21:14
14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundation-stones, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.