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 stroke of a letter of the law to become invalid.

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

And they put forward false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop speaking words against the holy place and the law!

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

shouting, "Israelite men, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place! And furthermore he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"

Therefore, do we nullify the law through faith? May it never be! But we uphold the law.

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

Now I am saying this: the law, that came after four hundred and thirty years, does not revoke a covenant previously ratified by God, in order to nullify the promise.

General references

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John,