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 earth and sky to pass away than for one smallest detail of the Law to fall to the ground.

Now, in the Law, Moses has ordered us to stone such women to death. But what do you say?"

Here they brought forward false witnesses who declared, "This fellow is incessantly speaking against the Holy Place and the Law.

"This man," they said, "is inducing people to offer unlawful worship to God."

They laid hands on him, crying out, "Men of Israel, help! help! This is the man who goes everywhere preaching to everybody against the Jewish people and the Law and this place. And besides, he has even brought Gentiles into the Temple and has desecrated this holy place."

Do we then by means of this faith abolish the Law? No, indeed; we give the Law a firmer footing.

For as a means of righteousness Christ is the termination of Law to every believer.

I mean that the Covenant which God had already formally made is not abrogated by the Law which was given four hundred and thirty years later--so as to annul the promise.

General references

For all the Prophets and the Law taught until John.