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 become void.

Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?"

and they set up false witnesses who said, "This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law,

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

crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place. Moreover, he even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place."

Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

This is what I mean: the law, which came years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.

General references

For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John,