Matthew 5:17 KJV
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Matthew 5:17, King James Version
In context
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Cross-references
- Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
- Luke 16:17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
- Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
- Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
- Romans 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.