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 the heaven and earth to pass than for one tittle of the Law to fail.

Now Moses in the Law commanded us that such should be stoned. You, then, what do you say?

And they set up false witnesses, who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law.

saying, This one persuades men to worship God contrary to the Law.

crying out, Men, Israelites, help! This is the man who teaches all everywhere against the people and the Law and this place. And even he brought Greeks into the temple and has polluted this holy place.

Do we then make the Law void through faith? Let it not be! But we establish the Law.

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

And I say this, A covenant having been ratified by God in Christ, the Law (coming into being four hundred and thirty years after) does not annul the promise, so as to abolish it.

General references

For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.