Luke 16:17

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

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  • Matt 5:18 : 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.
  • Luke 21:33 : 33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
  • Isa 40:8 : 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
  • 1 Pet 1:25 : 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
  • Isa 51:6 : 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make void the law thugh faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
  • Ps 102:25-27 : 25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. 26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: 27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
  • 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
  • Rev 20:11 : 11 And I saw a gat white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and the was found no place for them.
  • Rev 21:1 : 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth we passed away; and the was no mo sea.
  • Rev 21:4 : 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and the shall be no mo death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall the be any mo pain: for the former things a passed away.

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  • Matt 5:17-20
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    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.

    19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

    20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

  • 16 The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

  • 18 Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

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    30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.

    31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

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    32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

    33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

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    34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

    35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

  • Jas 2:10-11
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    10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

    11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

  • 13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

  • Matt 5:31-32
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    31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

    32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

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    11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

    12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

  • 25 For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

  • Luke 17:1-2
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    1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

    2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

  • Matt 19:6-10
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    6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

    7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

    8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

    9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

    10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

  • 12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

  • 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

  • 24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

  • 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

  • 15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

  • 12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

  • 18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

  • 18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

  • 23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

  • 17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

  • Matt 5:26-27
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    26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.

    27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

  • 11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

  • 14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

  • 3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

  • 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

  • Heb 9:16-17
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    16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

    17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

  • 14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island we moved out of their places.

  • 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

  • 16 No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.

  • 15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

  • 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.