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

It would be easier for the heavens and the earth to disappear than for one stroke of a letter in the Law to be lost.

OMITTED TEXT

There they produced witnesses who gave false evidence. "This man," they said, "is incessantly saying things against this Holy Place and the Law;

Charging him with persuading people to worship God in a way forbidden by the Law.

"Men of Israel! help! This is the man who teaches every one everywhere against our People, our Law, and this Place; and, what is more, he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and defiled this sacred place."

Do we, then, use this faith to abolish Law? Heaven forbid! No, we establish Law.

For Christ has brought Law to an end, so that righteousness may be obtained by every one who believes in him.

My point is this--An agreement already confirmed by God cannot be canceled by the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to cause the promise to be set aside.

General references

For the teaching of all the Prophets and of the Law continued till the time of John;