Matthew 5:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 pen in the Law to become void.

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

and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law.

saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

crying out, "Men of Israel, help. This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the Law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place."

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be. No, we establish the law.

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

Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

General references

For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.