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Matthew 5:17

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17“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

KJV

17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

BSB

17Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.

FBV

17Don't think I came to abolish the law or the writings of the prophets. I didn't come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.

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Extra References

Romans 10:4

4For Christ is the fulfillment[+] of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.


Luke 16:17

17But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.


Galatians 4:4-5

4But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, 5that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as children.


Romans 8:4

4that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.


Romans 3:31

31Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.


Isaiah 42:21

21It pleased the LORD, for his righteousnesssake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.


Galatians 3:17-24

17Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect. 18For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

19Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator. 20Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.

21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law. 22But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

23But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.


Matthew 7:12

12Therefore, whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.


Psalms 40:6-8

6Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering. 7Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll. 8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”


Hebrews 10:3-12

3But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins. 4For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. 5Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me. 6You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. 7Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”

8Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law), 9then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, 10by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins, 12but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,