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

Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than for one tittle of the law to fail.

Now Moses hath commanded us in the law, to stoee such.

And set up false witnesses who said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place and the law.

This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, Crying out, Men of Israel, help! This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: yea, and hath even brought Greeks into the temple, and polluted this holy place.

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

And this I say, the covenant which was before confirmed of God through Christ, the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

General references

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.