37 Bible Verses about Scriptures Fulfilled

Only, how could the scriptures be fulfilled then ??the scriptures that say this must be so?"

However, this has all happened for the fulfilment of the prophetic scriptures!" Then all the disciples left him and fled;

Day after day I was beside you in the temple teaching, and you never seized me. However, it is to let the scriptures be fulfilled."

Then he took the twelve aside and told them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and all the predictions of the prophets regarding the Son of man will be fulfilled;

"My brothers," said he, "it had to be fulfilled, that scripture which the holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David with regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

For I tell you, this word of scripture must be fulfilled in me: he was classed among criminals. Yes, there is an end to all that refers to me."

Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

Do not imagine I have come to destroy the Law or the prophets; I have not come to destroy but to fulfil.

(I tell you truly, till heaven and earth pass away not an iota, not a comma, will pass from the Law until it is all in force.

for I tell you I will never eat the passover again till the fulfilment of it in the Reign of God."

When I say 'you,' I do not mean you all; I know the men of my choice, and I made my choice that this scripture might be fulfilled, he who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.

and he proceeded to tell them that "To-day, this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."

It is that the word written in their Law may be fulfilled: they hated me for no cause.

When I was with them, I kept them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me; I guarded them, and not one of them perished ??only the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

they said to themselves, "Don't let us tear it. Let us draw lots to see who gets it" (that the scripture might be fulfilled, they distributed my clothes among them, and drew lots for my raiment). This was what the soldiers did.

After that, as Jesus knew that everything was now finished and fulfilled, he said (to fulfil the scripture), "I am thirsty."

For this took place that the scripture might be fulfilled, Not a bone of him will be broken.

All this happened for the fulfilment of what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:

where he stayed until the death of Herod. This was to fulfil what the Lord had said by the prophet: I called my Son from Egypt.

Then the saying was fulfilled which had been uttered by the prophet Jeremiah:

He went and settled in a town called Nazaret, so that what had been said by the prophets might be fulfilled: 'He shall be called a Nazarene.'

for the fulfilment of what had been said by the prophet Isaiah:

This took place for the fulfilment of what had been spoken by the prophet,

Then the word spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: and I took the thirty silver pieces, the price of him who had been priced, whom they had priced and expelled from the sons of Israel;

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(This was the man spoken of by the prophet Isaiah: The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.')

The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, by condemning him in their ignorance, fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath;

for these are the days of the divine Vengeance, in fulfilment of all that is written in scripture.

In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled: You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive.

(His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered this had been written of him and had happened to him.)

and, after carrying out all that had been predicted of him in scripture, they lowered him from the gibbet and laid him in a tomb.

and when this mortal body has been invested with immortality, then the saying of Scripture will be realized, Death is swallowed up in victory.

and the scripture was fulfilled: Abraham believed God, and this was counted to him as righteousness ??he was called God's friend.

Be in debt to no man ??apart from the debt of love one to another. He who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law.

Love never wrongs a neighbour; that is why love is the fulfilment of the law.

in order to secure the fulfilment of the Law's requirements in our lives, as we live and move not by the flesh but by the Spirit.