Matthew 5:17

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Thynke not that I am come to destroy the lawe, or the prophetes. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfyll.

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  • Rom 8:4 : 4 That the ryghteousnesse of the lawe, myght be fulfylled in vs, which walke not after the fleshe, but after the spirite.
  • Rom 10:4 : 4 For Christe is the ende of the lawe, for ryghteousnesse to all that beleue.
  • Gal 3:17-24 : 17 This I say, that the lawe which began afterwarde, beyonde foure hundred and thirtie yeres, doth not disanull the testament that was confirmed afore of God, vnto Christe warde, to make the promise of none effect. 18 For yf the inheritauce be of the lawe, then not nowe of promise: But God gaue it vnto Abraham by promise. 19 Wherfore then serueth the lawe? It was added because of transgressions, tyl the seede came to whom the promise was made: and it was ordayned by Angels in the hande of a mediatour. 20 A mediatour is not a mediatour of one, but God is one. 21 Is the lawe then against the promise of God? God forbyd. For yf there had ben a lawe geuen which coulde haue geuen life: then no doubt righteousnesse shoulde haue ben by the lawe. 22 But the scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne, that the promise by ye fayth of Iesus Christe shoulde be geuen vnto them that beleue. 23 But before fayth came, we were kept vnder the lawe, and were shut vp vnto the fayth which shoulde afterwarde be reuealed. 24 Wherfore, the lawe was our scholemaister vnto Christe, that we shoulde be iustified by fayth.
  • Gal 4:4-5 : 4 But when the fulnesse of the tyme was come, God sent his sonne, made of a woman, and made vnder the lawe, 5 To redeeme them that were vnder the lawe, that we myght receaue the adoption of chyldren.
  • Isa 42:21 : 21 The Lorde is mercyfull vnto them for his righteousnesse sake, that his word might be magnified and praysed:
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then destroy the lawe through fayth? God forbyd: But we rather mayntayne the lawe.
  • Luke 16:17 : 17 Easyer is it for heauen and earth to perishe, the one title of the lawe to faile.
  • Ps 40:6-8 : 6 O God my Lord, great are thy wonderous workes which thou hast done: & none can count in order thy benefites towarde vs, yf I woulde declare them and speake of them, they shoulde be mo then I am able to expresse. 7 Thou wouldest haue no sacrifice or offeryng, but thou hast opened myne eares: thou hast not required burnt offerynges and sacrifice for sinne. 8 Then sayde I, lo I am come: in the booke of thy lawe it is written of me that I shoulde fulfyll thy wyll O my God, I am content to do it, yea thy lawe is within the middest of my brest.
  • Matt 3:15 : 15 Iesus aunsweryng, sayde vnto hym: Suffer it to be so nowe. For thus it becommeth vs, to fulfyll all righteousnes. Then he suffred hym.
  • Heb 10:3-9 : 3 Neuerthelesse, in those (sacrifices) is mention made of sinnes euery yere. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of Bulles & of Goates shoulde take away sinnes. 5 Wherfore when he commeth into the worlde, he saith: Sacrifice and offring thou wouldest not haue, but a body hast thou ordeyned me. 6 In burnt sacrifices & sinne (offerynges) thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then sayde I, lo I come (In the begynnyng of the booke it is written of me) to do thy wyll O God. 8 Aboue when he saith, that sacrifice, and offeryng, and burnt offeringes, and sinne offerynges thou wouldest not, neither haddest pleasure therein (which are offered by the lawe:) 9 Then sayde he, lo I come, to do thy wyll, O God. He taketh away ye first to stablyshe the seconde. 10 In ye which wyll we are made holy, euen by the offeryng of the body of Iesus Christe once for all. 11 And euery priest standeth dayly ministryng, & offeryng oftentymes the same sacrifices, whiche can neuer take away sinnes. 12 But this man, after he hath offered one sacrifice for sinnes, is sit downe for euer on the ryght hande of God:
  • Col 2:16-17 : 16 Let no man therfore iudge you in meate, or in drinke, or in part of an holyday, or of the newe moone, or of the Sabboth dayes: 17 Which are shadowes of thynges to come: but the body (is) of Christe.
  • Matt 7:12 : 12 Therfore all thynges, whatsoeuer ye woulde that men shoulde do to you, do ye euen so to them: For this is the lawe, and the prophetes.
  • John 8:5 : 5 Moyses in the lawe commaunded vs that suche shoulde be stoned: But what sayest thou?
  • Acts 6:13 : 13 And brought foorth false witnesses, which sayde: This man ceasseth not to speake blasphemous wordes agaynste this holy place and the lawe.
  • Acts 18:13 : 13 Saying: This felow counselleth men to worship God contrary to the lawe.
  • Acts 21:28 : 28 Crying: Men of Israel helpe. This is the man that teacheth all men euery where against the people, and the lawe, and this place: He hath also brought Grekes into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.

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    18 For truely I say vnto you, tyll heauen and earth passe, one iotte, or one title of the lawe shall not scape, tyll all be fulfylled.

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