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

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Matthew 11:13

Bible References

To destroy the law

However, it is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for one stroke of a letter in the Law to be dropped.

Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women to death. What do you say?"

They had false witnesses stand up and say, "This man never stops saying things against this Holy Place and against the Law.

They said, "This man is persuading people to worship God in ways that are contrary to the Law."

yelling, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere to turn against our people, the Law, and this place. More than that, he has even brought Greeks into the Temple and desecrated this Holy Place."

Do we, then, abolish the Law by this faith? Of course not! Instead, we uphold the Law.

For the Messiah is the culmination of the Law as far as righteousness is concerned for everyone who believes.

This is what I mean: The Law that came 430 years later did not cancel the covenant that God ratified previously. The promise was never nullified.

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because the Law and all the Prophets prophesied up to the time of John.