Luke 16:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Matt 5:18 : 18 For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
  • Luke 21:33 : 33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.
  • Isa 40:8 : 8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever."
  • 1 Pet 1:25 : 25 but the Lord's word endures forever." This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.
  • Isa 51:6 : 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein shall die in the same way: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
  • Ps 102:25-27 : 25 Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands. 26 They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed. 27 But you are the same. Your years will have no end.
  • 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
  • Rev 20:11 : 11 I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
  • Rev 21:1 : 1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
  • Rev 21:4 : 4 He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."

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  • Matt 5:17-20
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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.

    18 For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

    19 Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

    20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

  • Luke 16:16
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    16 The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

  • Luke 16:18
    75%

    18 Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

  • Mark 13:30-31
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    30 Most certainly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things happen.

    31 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

  • Luke 21:32-33
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    32 Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things are accomplished.

    33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.

  • Matt 24:34-35
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    34 Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.

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

  • Jas 2:10-11
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    69%

    10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

    11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

  • Matt 11:13
    69%

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

  • Matt 5:31-32
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    69%

    31 "It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'

    32 but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

  • Mark 10:11-12
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    68%

    11 He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

    12 If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."

  • Luke 18:25
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    25 For it is easier for a camel to enter in 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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    66%

    1 He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

    2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

  • Matt 19:6-10
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    6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."

    7 They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"

    8 He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

    9 I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."

    10 His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."

  • Matt 7:12
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    12 Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

  • Mark 10:25
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    25 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."

  • Matt 19:24
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    24 Again I tell you, 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."

  • Matt 22:40
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    40 The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

  • Rom 4:15
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    15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

  • Heb 7:12
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    12 For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.

  • Heb 7:18
    66%

    18 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

  • Matt 18:18
    66%

    18 Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.

  • Matt 23:23
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    23 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

  • Gal 3:17
    65%

    17 Now 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.

  • Matt 5:26-27
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    26 Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.

    27 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery;'

  • Matt 11:11
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    11 Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

  • Matt 18:14
    65%

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

  • Matt 19:3
    65%

    3 Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"

  • 1 John 2:17
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    17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

  • Heb 9:16-17
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    16 For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.

    17 For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.

  • Rev 6:14
    64%

    14 The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

  • Heb 12:27
    64%

    27 This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

  • Matt 9:16
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    16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.

  • Matt 10:15
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    15 Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

  • Matt 7:27
    64%

    27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."