Matthew 16:18

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades ¹  will not overpower it.

Ge 22:17; 2Sa 18:4; Job 38:17; Ps 9:13; Ps 69:12; Ps 107:18; Ps 125:1,2; Ps 127:5; Pr 24:7; Isa 28:6; Isa 28:16; Isa 38:10; Isa 54:17; Zec 6:12,13; Mt 10:2; Mt 18:17; Joh 1:42; Joh 10:27-30; Ac 2:47; Ac 8:1; Ro 8:33-39; 1Co 3:9; 1Co 3:10,11; 1Co 15:55; Ga 2:9; Eph 2:19-22; Eph 3:10; Eph 5:25-27,32; Col 1:18; 1Ti 3:5,15; Heb 3:3,4; Heb 12:28; Re 11:15; Re 21:1-4; Re 21:14

¹ tn Or “and the power of death” (taking the reference to the gates of Hades as a metonymy).

sn In the OT, Hades was known as Sheol. It is the place where the unrighteous will reside (Matt 11:23; Luke 16:23; Rev 20:13-14). Some translations render this by its modern equivalent, “hell”; others see it as a reference to the power of death.