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 tittle of the law to fall.

Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such: what then sayest thou of her?

and set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against this holy place, and the law:

saying, This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man that teacheth all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place; and moreover he brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place.

Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.

For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one that believeth.

Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.

General references

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.