Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
But heaven and earth will come to an end before the smallest letter of the law may be dropped out.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
However, it is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for one stroke of a letter in the Law to be dropped.
A Conservative Version
But it is easier for the heaven and the earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.
American Standard Version
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away [i.e., to be destroyed. See II Pet. 3:3], than for one portion of a letter of the law of Moses to be dropped.
Anderson New Testament
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one point of the law to fail.
Common New Testament
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one dot of the law to fail.
Daniel Mace New Testament
yet heaven and earth may sooner pass away, than any part of the law be unaccomplish'd.
Darby Translation
But it is easier that the heaven and the earth should pass away than that one tittle of the law should fail.
Godbey New Testament
And it is easier that heaven and earth pass away, than one tittle fall from the law.
Goodspeed New Testament
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dotting of an i in the Law to go unfulfilled.
John Wesley New Testament
Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than for one tittle of the law to fail.
Julia Smith Translation
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one horn of the law to fall.
King James 2000
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one dot of the law to fail.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But it is easier [for] heaven and earth to pass away than [for] one stroke of a letter of the law to become invalid.
Modern King James verseion
And it is easier for the heaven and earth to pass than for one tittle of the Law to fail.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Sooner shall heaven and earth perish, than one tittle of the law shall perish.
Moffatt New Testament
Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for an iota of the Law to lapse.
Montgomery New Testament
"Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away then for one title of the law to fail.
NET Bible
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a letter in the law to become void.
New Heart English Bible
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the Law to become void.
Noyes New Testament
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fail.
Sawyer New Testament
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one point of the law to fail.
The Emphasized Bible
But it is, easier, for heaven and earth to pass away, than that, of the law, one little point, should fail.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fail.
Twentieth Century New Testament
It would be easier for the heavens and the earth to disappear than for one stroke of a letter in the Law to be lost.
Webster
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Weymouth New Testament
But it is easier for earth and sky to pass away than for one smallest detail of the Law to fall to the ground.
Williams New Testament
It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dotting of an 'i' in the law to fail.
World English Bible
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
Worrell New Testament
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.
Worsley New Testament
Though it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Youngs Literal Translation
and it is easier to the heaven and the earth to pass away, than of the law one tittle to fall.
Themes
Evangelism » When the kingdom of God began to be preached
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Luke 16:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Additional Teachings
16 The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force. 17 But heaven and earth will come to an end before the smallest letter of the law may be dropped out. 18 Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her.
Cross References
Matthew 5:18
Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.
Isaiah 40:8
The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.
Isaiah 51:6
Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.
Luke 21:33
Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.
Romans 3:31
Do we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.
1 Peter 1:25
But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.
Revelation 20:11
And I saw a great white seat, and him who was seated on it, before whose face the earth and the heaven went in flight; and there was no place for them.
Revelation 21:1
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were gone; and there was no more sea.
Revelation 21:4
And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end.