For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.
- Acts 17:31 (NIV)

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.
- Ephesians 4:14 (NIV)

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
- 2 Timothy 4:3 (NIV)

He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.
- Titus 1:9 (NIV)

Peter’s Confession:
Peter’s

of Jesus.

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him; “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who is merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make the choice. Either this man was and is the Son of God or else a madman or something worse.”

—C. S. Lewis

Peter’s Confession:
Peter’s

By Christ.

Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.
- Matthew 16:17 (NIV)

I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
- Matthew 16:18 (NIV)

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
- Matthew 16:19 (NIV)

From that time on Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and teachers of the law, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
- Matthew 16:21 (NIV)

Peter’s Confession:
Peter’s

with Jesus.

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke Him “Never Lord!” he said, “This shall never happen to you!” Jesus turned and said to Peter “Get behind me, Satan!” You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.
- Matthew 16:22-23 (NIV)

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in His Father’s glory with his angels, and then He will reward each person according to what he has done.
- Matthew 16:24-27 (NIV)

Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.
- Matthew 16:28 (NIV)