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

yet heaven and earth may sooner pass away, than any part of the law be unaccomplish'd.

now Moses has ordain'd in the law, that such criminals should be stoned: but what is your opinion?

where they produc'd false witnesses, who said, this man is continually inveighing against the holy place, and against the law.

this fellow, said they, would persuade us to set up a way of worship inconsistent with our law.

bawling out, "men of Israel, help: this is the man that every where inveighs upon all occasions against the people, against the law, and against this place, where they have brought Greeks too to profane this holy place."

do we then make the law useless by our doctrine of faith? by no means; on the contrary, it is we that observe the law.

for the end of the law was to bring men to Christ, that every one who believeth, might be justified.

this therefore I say, that the law, which was not till four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul the promise, that was ratified before by God, so as to set the promise afoot.

General references

for all the prophets and the law were your guides, till the coming of John.