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

Sooner shall heaven and earth perish, than one tittle of the law shall perish.

Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned: What sayest thou therefore?"

and brought forth false witnesses which said, "This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law,

saying, "This fellow counceleth men to worship God contrary to the law."

"Men of Israel, help. This is the man that teacheth all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover also he hath brought Greeks into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place."

Do we then destroy the law through faith? God forbid. But we, rather, maintain the law.

For Christ is the end of the law to justify all that believe.

This I say, that the law which began afterward, beyond four hundred and thirty years, doth not disannul the testament, that was confirmed afore of God unto Christ ward, to make the promise of none effect.

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and they that go to it with violence pluck it unto them. For all the prophets and the law prophesied unto the time of John.