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 dot of the law to fail.

Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say?"

They put forward false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking against this holy place, and the law;

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

crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against our people and our law and this place; and besides he also brought Greeks into the temple, and he has defiled this holy place."

Do we then nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

For Christ is the end of the law, that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

What I mean is this: the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

General references

For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.