Luke 16:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and it is easier to the heaven and the earth to pass away, than of the law one tittle to fall.

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  • Matt 5:18 : 18 for, verily I say to you, till that the heaven and the earth may pass away, one iota or one tittle may not pass away from the law, till that all may come to pass.
  • Luke 21:33 : 33 the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words may not pass away.
  • Isa 40:8 : 8 Withered hath grass, faded the flower, But a word of our God riseth for ever.
  • 1 Pet 1:25 : 25 and the saying of the Lord doth remain -- to the age; and this is the saying that was proclaimed good news to you.
  • Isa 51:6 : 6 Lift ye up to the heavens your eyes, And look attentively unto the earth beneath, For the heavens as smoke have vanished, And the earth as a garment weareth out, And its inhabitants as gnats do die, And My salvation is to the age, And My righteousness is not broken.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.
  • Ps 102:25-27 : 25 Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands `are' the heavens. 26 They -- They perish, and Thou remainest, And all of them as a garment become old, As clothing Thou changest them, And they are changed. 27 And Thou `art' the same, and Thine years are not finished.
  • 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
  • Rev 20:11 : 11 And I saw a great white throne, and Him who is sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven did flee away, and place was not found for them;
  • Rev 21:1 : 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more;
  • Rev 21:4 : 4 and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'

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  • Matt 5:17-20
    4 verses
    84%

    17`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets -- I did not come to throw down, but to fulfill;

    18for, verily I say to you, till that the heaven and the earth may pass away, one iota or one tittle may not pass away from the law, till that all may come to pass.

    19`Whoever therefore may loose one of these commands -- the least -- and may teach men so, least he shall be called in the reign of the heavens, but whoever may do and may teach `them', he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens.

    20`For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.

  • Luke 16:16
    77%

    16the law and the prophets `are' till John; since then the reign of God is proclaimed good news, and every one doth press into it;

  • Luke 16:18
    75%

    18`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

  • Mark 13:30-31
    2 verses
    74%

    30Verily I say to you, that this generation may not pass away till all these things may come to pass;

    31the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

  • Luke 21:32-33
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    32verily I say to you -- This generation may not pass away till all may have come to pass;

    33the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words may not pass away.

  • Matt 24:34-35
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    73%

    34Verily I say to you, this generation may not pass away till all these may come to pass.

    35The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

  • Jas 2:10-11
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    10for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one `point', he hath become guilty of all;

    11for He who is saying, `Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, `Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law;

  • Matt 11:13
    69%

    13for all the prophets and the law till John did prophesy,

  • Matt 5:31-32
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    31`And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce;

    32but I -- I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

  • Mark 10:11-12
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    11and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her;

    12and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she committeth adultery.'

  • Luke 18:25
    67%

    25for it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to enter, than for a rich man into the reign of God to enter.'

  • Luke 17:1-2
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    1And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but wo `to him' through whom they come;

    2it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.

  • Matt 19:6-10
    5 verses
    66%

    6so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

    7They say to him, `Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?'

    8He saith to them -- `Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

    9`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

    10His disciples say to him, `If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'

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    12`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

  • Mark 10:25
    66%

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

  • Matt 19:24
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    24and again I say to you, it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to go, than for a rich man to enter into the reign of God.'

  • Matt 22:40
    66%

    40on these -- the two commands -- all the law and the prophets do hang.'

  • Rom 4:15
    66%

    15for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither `is' transgression.

  • Heb 7:12
    66%

    12for the priesthood being changed, of necessity also, of the law a change doth come,

  • Heb 7:18
    66%

    18for a disannulling indeed doth come of the command going before because of its weakness, and unprofitableness,

  • Matt 18:18
    66%

    18`Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.

  • Matt 23:23
    66%

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  • Gal 3:17
    65%

    17and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

  • Matt 5:26-27
    2 verses
    65%

    26verily I say to thee, thou mayest not come forth thence till that thou mayest pay the last farthing.

    27`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery;

  • Matt 11:11
    65%

    11Verily I say to you, there hath not risen, among those born of women, a greater than John the Baptist, but he who is least in the reign of the heavens is greater than he.

  • Matt 18:14
    65%

    14so it is not will in presence of your Father who is in the heavens, that one of these little ones may perish.

  • Matt 19:3
    65%

    3And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'

  • 1 John 2:17
    65%

    17and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.

  • Heb 9:16-17
    2 verses
    65%

    16for where a covenant `is', the death of the covenant-victim to come in is necessary,

    17for a covenant over dead victims `is' stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,

  • Rev 6:14
    64%

    14and heaven departed as a scroll rolled up, and every mountain and island -- out of their places they were moved;

  • Heb 12:27
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    27and this -- `Yet once' -- doth make evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;

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    16`And no one doth put a patch of undressed cloth on an old garment, for its filling up doth take from the garment, and a worse rent is made.

  • Matt 10:15
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    15verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

  • Matt 7:27
    64%

    27and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'