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 the heaven and the earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.

Now in the law, Moses commanded us such women are to be stoned. What therefore do thou say about her?

And they put forward FALSE witnesses who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous sayings against the holy place, and the law.

saying, This man is persuading men to worship God against the law.

crying out, Men, Israelites, help. This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. And besides he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place.

Do we then make law void through faith? May it not happen! Instead, we establish law.

For Christ is the end of law for righteousness, to every man who believes.

And I say this, a covenant previously confirmed by God in Christ, the law, which happened four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul in order to make the promise useless.

General references

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.