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 point of the law to fail.

Now Moses, in his law, commanded us, that such should be stoned; but what say you?

And they brought forward false witnesses, who said: This man ceases not to speak words against this holy place, and the law.

saying: This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.

crying out: Men of Israel, help! this is the man who teaches all men every where against this people, and the law, and this place: and besides, he has even brought Greeks into the temple, and defiled this holy place.

Do we, then, make law void through the faith? It can not be. On the other hand, we establish law.

For Christ is the end of the law for justification, to every one that believes.

And this I affirm, that the covenant which had been before confirmed by God with respect to Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, could not annul so as to make the promise of no effect.

General references

For all the prophets and the law prophesied till John;