Verse 17

Thinke not, that I am come to destroye the lawe, or the Prophetes: no, I am not come to destroye them, but to fulfyll them.

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 8:4 : 4 & by synne daned synne in ye flesh: that the righteousnes requyred of the lawe, mighte be fulfylled in vs, which walke not after the flesh, but after the sprete.
  • Rom 10:4 : 4 For Christ is the ende of the lawe, vnto righteousnes for euery one yt beleueth.
  • Gal 3:17-24 : 17 This Testament (I saye) which afore was confirmed to Christ warde, is not disanulled (that the promes shulde be made of none affecte) by the lawe which was geuen beyonde foure hundreth & thirtie yeares therafter. 18 For yf the enheritaunce be gotten by the lawe, then is it not geuen by promes. But God gaue it frely vnto Abraham by promes. 19 Wherfore the serueth the lawe? It was added because of trangression, tyll the sede came, to the which the promes was made. And it was geuen of angels, by the hande of the mediatoure. 20 A mediatour is not a mediatour of one onely, but God is one. 21 Is the lawe then agaynst the promyses of God? God forbyd. Howbeit yf there had bene geuen a lawe which coulde haue geue life, the no doute righteousnes shulde come of the lawe. 22 But ye scripture hath shut vp all vnder synne, that ye promes shulde come by the faith on Iesus Christ, geue vnto the that beleue. 23 Before faith came, we were kepte and shut vp vnder the lawe, vnto the faith which shulde afterwarde be declared. 24 Thus ye lawe was or scolemaster vnto Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith.
  • Gal 4:4-5 : 4 But whan the tyme was fulfylled, God sent his sonne, borne of a woma, and put vnder the lawe, 5 to redeme them which were vnder the lawe, that we mighte receaue ye childshippe.
  • Isa 42:21 : 21 The LORDE be merciful vnto them for his rightuousnesse sake, that his worde might be magnified & praysed.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Destroye we then the lawe thorow faith? God forbyd. But we mantayne the lawe.
  • Luke 16:17 : 17 But easier is it, for heauen and earth to perishe, then one tittle of ye lawe to fall.
  • Ps 40:6-8 : 6 I wolde declare them, and speake of the: but they are so many, that they can not be tolde. 7 Sacrifice and offeringe thou woldest not haue but a body hast thou ordeined me: burntofferynges and sacrifice for synne thou hast not alowed. Then sayde I: Lo, I come. 8 In the begynnynge of the boke it is written of me, that I shulde fulfill thy wil O my God, & that am I contet to do: yee thy lawe is within my hert.
  • Matt 3:15 : 15 Iesus answered & sayd vnto hym: Let it be so now. For thus it be commeth vs to fulfyll all righteousnes. Then he suffred hym.
  • Heb 10:3-9 : 3 Neuertheles in those sacrifices there is made but a remembraunce of synnes euery yeare. 4 For it is vnpossible yt the bloude of oxen and of goates shulde take awaye synnes. 5 Wherfore whan he commeth in to the worlde, he sayeth: Sacrifice & offerynge thou woldest not haue, but a body hast thou ordeyned me. 6 Burntofferynges and synneofferynges hast thou not alowed. 7 Then sayde I: Lo, I come. I the begynnynge of the boke it is wrytten of me, that I shulde do yi wyll O God. 8 Aboue wha he had sayde: Sacrifice and offerynge, and burntsacrifices & synofferynges thou woldest not haue, nether hast alowed (which yet are offered after ye lawe). 9 The sayde he: Lo, I come to do wil thy O God: there taketh he awaye the first, to stablysshe the latter: 10 In the which wyll we are sanctified by the offerynge vp of the body of Iesus Christ once for all. 11 And euery prest is ready daylie mynistringe, and oftymes offereth one maner of offerynges, which can neuer take awaye synnes. 12 But this man whan he had offred for synnes, one sacrifice which is of value for euer, sat him downe on the righte hande of God,
  • Col 2:16-17 : 16 Let no man therfore trouble youre consciences aboute meate or drynke, or for a pece of an holy daye, as the holy daye of ye newe Mone, or of the Sabbath dayes, 17 which are the shadowe of the thinges that were for to come: but the body selfe is in Christ.
  • Matt 7:12 : 12 Therfore what soeuer ye wolde that me shulde do to you, eue so do ye to them. This ys the lawe and the Prophetes.
  • John 8:5 : 5 Moses in the lawe commaunded vs to stone soch. What sayest thou?
  • Acts 6:13 : 13 and brought him before the councell, and set false witnesses there, which sayde: This man ceasseth not to speake blasphemous wordes agaynst this holy place and the lawe.
  • Acts 18:13 : 13 and sayde: This felowe counceleth men to worshipe God cotrary to the lawe.
  • Acts 21:28 : 28 and cryed: Ye men of Israel, helpe, this is the man, that teacheth all men euery where agaynst oure people, the lawe, and this place. He hath broughte Grekes also in to the temple, and hath defyled this holy place.