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 tiny stroke of a letter in the law to become void.

In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?"

They brought forward false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.

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

shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this sanctuary! Furthermore he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple and made this holy place ritually unclean!"

Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.

For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to invalidate the promise.

General references

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John appeared.