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

And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

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

Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

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

And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

General references

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.