Matthew 5:17

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Summary

Matthew 5:17

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

To destroy the law

General references

Matthew 11:13

Bible References

To destroy the law

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fail.

Now Moses in the law commanded, that such women should be stoned: therefore what sayest thou?

and they set up false witnesses, saying, This man doth not cease speaking blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

saying, This is the fellow that earnestly persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.

crying out, Men of Israel, help! This is the man, who, by his preaching, sets all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place: yea and more still, hath brought Greeks into the temple, and defiled this holy place:

Do we then abolish the law through faith? God forbid: but on the contrary, we give the law stability.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

Now this I say, the covenant confirmed of God to Christ, the law, which was given three hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, so as to vacate the promise.

General references

For all the prophets and the law until John, foretold [this].