Matthew 16

Which worship songs are based on Matthew 16?

  1. You Are I Am — Sanctus Real (2025) Matthew 16:13-16

    The first verse closely retells Jesus asking his disciples about his public identity and then demanding their own answer. It reproduces the proposed identities of John the Baptist, Elijah, and a prophet before presenting Peter's confession that Jesus is the Christ.

  2. I Know A Name - Live — Elevation Worship (2025) Matthew 16:18

    The image of the gates of Hades losing their security under Christ's authority adapts Jesus' promise that those gates will not prevail against his church.

  3. I Know A Name — Elevation Worship (2025) Matthew 16:18

    The shaking gates of Hell adapt Jesus' declaration that the gates of Hades will not prevail against His church.

  4. REBEL — Anne Wilson (2023) Matthew 16:18

    The image of hell's gates being overthrown draws on Jesus' declaration that those gates will not prevail against his church.

  5. Take It All Back - What The Enemy Stole — Tauren Wells, Davies. (2024) Matthew 16:18

    The chorus uses Jesus’ distinctive image of the gates of Hades being unable to prevail against his church, recasting it as an offensive declaration of spiritual victory.

  6. Salt And Light — Rend Collective (2026) Matthew 16:18

    The declaration that hell’s gates cannot prevail closely reproduces Jesus’ promise concerning the advance and endurance of his church.

  7. Spirit of Elijah (Live) — Red Rocks Worship & Tyler Roberts (2025) Matthew 16:18

    The interlude closely restates Jesus' declaration that the powers of death will not overcome his church.

  8. Estamos de Pé (Ao Vivo) — Marcus Salles (2020) Matthew 16:18

    The declaration that infernal power cannot prevail against the church unmistakably invokes Jesus’ promise concerning the gates of Hades and the church he would build.

  9. Estamos de Pé - Ao Vivo — Marcus Salles (2021) Matthew 16:18

    The declaration that hell cannot prevail against the church unmistakably echoes Jesus’ promise that the powers of Hades will not overcome his church.

  10. What A Worthy Name — Passion & Chidima (2026) Matthew 16:18

    The declaration that the church stands upon a rock and withstands the powers of death strongly echoes Jesus' promise to build his church on the rock.

  11. Take It All Back — Tauren Wells & Davies. & We The Kingdom (2022) Matthew 16:18

    The image of advancing against hell’s gates draws directly on Jesus’ declaration that the gates of Hades will not prevail against his church.

  12. Get Behind Me — Emerson Day (2025) Matthew 16:23

    The phrase 'get behind me' directly references Jesus' rebuke of Peter in Matthew 16:23, where He tells Peter to get behind Him, indicating a rejection of the enemy's influence.

  13. Get Behind Me — Emerson Day & Zach Williams (2025) Matthew 16:23

    The phrase 'get behind me' directly references Jesus' rebuke of Peter in Matthew 16:23, where He tells Peter to get behind Him, indicating a rejection of the adversary's influence.

  14. Get Behind Me - Radio Version — Emerson Day (2025) Matthew 16:23

    The song directly references the command to the devil to 'get behind me,' echoing Jesus' rebuke to Peter in Matthew 16:23, where Jesus tells Peter to get behind Him, indicating a rejection of temptation and a call to follow Him.

  15. Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus / Nearer My God to Thee — Elvis Presley (2022) Matthew 16:24

    The opening presents cross-bearing as a personal obligation shared by all, closely reflecting Jesus’ command that anyone who follows him must take up his or her own cross.

  16. Take Up Your Cross — Jon Guerra (2025) Matthew 16:24-26

    The song directly quotes Jesus' teaching on self-denial and taking up one's cross, emphasizing the necessity of sacrifice for those who wish to follow Him.

  17. All In All — Josh Garrels (2023) Matthew 16:24

    The chorus closely reproduces Jesus’ call to self-denial, cross-bearing, and discipleship.

  18. Death of Ego — Nathan Wagner (2025) Matthew 16:24-26

    The opening contrasts worldly gain with profound inner loss, closely reflecting Jesus’ warning that gaining the world cannot compensate for forfeiting one’s soul. The song’s wider call to relinquish the self also fits the passage’s immediate context of self-denial.

  19. 100% — Phil Wickham (2023) Matthew 16:24-26

    The opening verse closely invokes Jesus’ teaching that disciples must take up their crosses and lose their lives for his sake in order to find true life. Its contrast between discipleship and worldly gain also follows the passage’s immediate context.

  20. Promise Land — Peyton Parrish (2025) Matthew 16:24

    The chorus directly invokes Jesus’ command that disciples take up their cross and follow him.

  21. You Get The Glory — Jonathan Traylor (2020) Matthew 16:24

    The singer describes his suffering as a personal cross he must bear, directly invoking Jesus' image of taking up one's cross as part of costly discipleship.

  22. War of Change - Reignited — Thousand Foot Krutch & Adelitas Way (2024) Matthew 16:24

    The singer adopts Jesus’ instruction that a disciple must take up the cross, using it as a declaration of courageous self-sacrifice.

  23. Let Go Let God (Challenge Remix) — Zaytoven & 1k Phew & ELI MONTANNA & GodFearin & Mike Teezy & GODINA (2024) Matthew 16:24

    The instruction to take up one's cross and continue walking closely paraphrases Jesus' command that disciples deny themselves, take up their cross, and follow him.

  24. Letting Go For Dear Life — Tenth Avenue North (2024) Matthew 16:24-25

    The bridge directly invokes Jesus' paradox that a person who relinquishes life for his sake will truly find it, connecting surrender with Christ's self-giving death.

  25. For The Cause — Keith & Kristyn Getty (2020) Matthew 16:24

    The personal vow closely follows Jesus’ threefold call to renounce self-rule, accept the cross, and become his follower.

  26. Follow (Live From Passion 2024) — Passion & Melodie Malone (2024) Matthew 16:24

    The commitment to take up one’s cross and follow Jesus directly restates Christ’s call to self-denial and discipleship.

  27. HOW MANY (feat. Mogli the Iceburg) — indie tribe & nobigdyl. & Jon Keith & Torey D'Shaun & Mogli the Iceburg (2026) Matthew 16:24-26

    The closing verse combines renouncing the world with dying to self, closely reflecting Jesus’ teaching about self-denial, losing one’s life for him, and the futility of gaining the world.

  28. Started With You — Dan Bremnes (2025) Matthew 16:25

    The paradox of discovering one's true self through losing oneself closely echoes Jesus' teaching that the person who loses their life for his sake will find it.

  29. Over and Over — Vertical Worship (2020) Matthew 16:25

    The bridge closely paraphrases Jesus’ paradox that surrendering one’s life for him is the way to find true life.

Matthew 16 (King James Version)

1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

5 And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.

6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.

8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?

9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.

21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.

22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.

23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.