Parallel Verses
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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
But heaven and earth will come to an end before the smallest letter of the law may be dropped out.
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.
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
Topics
Interlinear
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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 continued until John came: from that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God has been spreading, and all classes have been forcing their way into it. 17 But it is easier for earth and sky to pass away than for one smallest detail of the Law to fall to the ground. 18 Every man who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and he who marries her when so divorced from her husband commits adultery.
Cross References
Matthew 5:18
Solemnly I tell you that until Heaven and earth pass away, not one iota or smallest detail will pass away from the Law until all has taken place.
Luke 21:33
Earth and sky will pass away, but it is certain that my words will not pass away.
Romans 3:31
Do we then by means of this faith abolish the Law? No, indeed; we give the Law a firmer footing.
1 Peter 1:25
But the word of the Lord remains for ever." And that means the Message which has been proclaimed among you in the Good News.
2 Peter 3:10
The day of the Lord will come like a thief--it will be a day on which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, the elements be destroyed in the fierce heat, and the earth and all the works of man be utterly burnt up.
Revelation 20:11
Then I saw a great white throne and One who was seated on it, from whose presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found 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 the sea no longer exists.
Revelation 21:4
He will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death shall be no more; nor sorrow, nor wail of woe, nor pain; for the first things have passed away."