John 20:23
If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”
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John 20:23
If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”
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John 20:19
When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle and said to them, “Peace be to you.”
John 20:20
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.
John 20:21
Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
John 20:22
When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!
John 20:23
If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”
John 20:24
But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came.
John 20:25
The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
John 20:26
After eight days, again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”
John 20:27
Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”
John 20:28
Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
John 20:29
Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”
Mark 16:14
Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table; and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
John 20:31
but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
Acts 1:13
When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying, that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
Acts 1:14
All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
Acts 1:15
In these days, Peter stood up in the middle of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,
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Matthew 16:18
I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
Matthew 16:19
I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”
Matthew 18:17
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.
Matthew 18:18
Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.
2 Corinthians 2:9
For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
2 Corinthians 2:10
Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
1 Corinthians 5:4
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together with my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Corinthians 5:5
you are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Matthew 18:20
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”
2 Corinthians 10:6
and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.
Acts 16:4
As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.
2 Corinthians 13:10
For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.
Ephesians 2:20
being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
1 Timothy 1:20
of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
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Mark 2:5
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
Mark 2:6
But there were some of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
Mark 2:7
“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
Mark 2:8
Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?
Mark 2:9
Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?’
Mark 2:10
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—
Isaiah 43:25
I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
Luke 5:21
The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Matthew 9:6
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins—” (then he said to the paralytic), “Get up, and take up your mat, and go to your house.”
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Matthew 28:18
Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
Matthew 28:19
Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Matthew 28:20
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Luke 24:46
He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
Luke 24:47
and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Mark 16:17
These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;
Mark 16:18
they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Luke 24:49
Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”
John 17:2
even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
Acts 5:31
God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
2 Corinthians 5:20
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Acts 2:38
Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 13:38
Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins;
Acts 13:39
and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
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Mark 16:15
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
Mark 16:16
He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
Luke 24:48
You are witnesses of these things.
Acts 8:22
Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
1 Corinthians 12:10
and to another workings of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of languages, and to another the interpretation of languages.
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John 21:15
So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
John 21:16
He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
John 21:17
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
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John 5:22
For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
John 5:23
that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.
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John 16:7
Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
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John 16:8
When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;
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John 21:14
This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:5
and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
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2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God in those who are saved and in those who perish:
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2 Corinthians 2:16
to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
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Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
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