D&C 124:93 · Matthew 16:19
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The clause runs identical but for the pronoun: the older 'thou shalt' is 'he shall' here, because the sentence is about a third person being given an office rather than a hearer being addressed. 'bind on earth' stands at seven distinct frozen verses in the corpus, counted case-insensitively: Matthew 16:19, Matthew 18:18, and five in the Doctrine and Covenants - this verse, D&C 127:7, D&C 128:8, D&C 128:10, and D&C 132:46. Of the seven, only D&C 128:10 names its source; the rest, this verse included, carry the clause without attribution. Counts are of distinct frozen verses in the corpus, derived by search at the time of writing.