Matthew 16:19

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

“Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.

“If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained.”

and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: This is what He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says: