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The Silver Medallion award-winning New International Bible Dictionary was created to help you get more out your study of the NIV Bible. Containing more than 4,500 entries and more than 1,000 illustrations, maps, charts, photos, and tables, it is the first Bible dictionary based entirely on the NIV translation. The New International Bible Dictionary delivers an encyclopedic wealth of insight into...

POVERTY (See POOR) POWER (See AUTHORITY) POWER OF THE KEYS (Gr. kleis, key). A phrase whose origin lies in the words of Jesus to Peter, “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” (Matt 16:19). It has also been connected with the binding and loosing of Matthew 18:18 and the authority to forgive or not to forgive of John 20:22–23. Moreover, Jesus is presented in Revelation 3:7 as having
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