Matthew 5:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Rom 8:4 : 4 that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
  • Rom 10:4 : 4 For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,
  • Gal 3:17-24 : 17 and 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, 18 for if by law `be' the inheritance, `it is' no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant `it'. 19 Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator -- 20 and the mediator is not of one, and God is one -- 21 the law, then, `is' against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness, 22 but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing. 23 And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed, 24 so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,
  • Gal 4:4-5 : 4 and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law, 5 that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;
  • Isa 42:21 : 21 Jehovah hath delight for the sake of His righteousness, He magnifieth law, and maketh honourable.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.
  • Luke 16:17 : 17 and it is easier to the heaven and the earth to pass away, than of the law one tittle to fall.
  • Ps 40:6-8 : 6 Sacrifice and present Thou hast not desired, Ears Thou hast prepared for me, Burnt and sin-offering Thou hast not asked. 7 Then said I, `Lo, I have come,' In the roll of the book it is written of me, 8 To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law `is' within my heart.
  • Matt 3:15 : 15 But Jesus answering said to him, `Suffer now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfill all righteousness,' then he doth suffer him.
  • Heb 10:3-9 : 3 but in those `sacrifices' is a remembrance of sins every year, 4 for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me, 6 in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight, 7 then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;' 8 saying above -- `Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,' -- which according to the law are offered -- 9 then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish; 10 in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once, 11 and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins. 12 And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered -- to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, --
  • Col 2:16-17 : 16 Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body `is' of the Christ;
  • Matt 7:12 : 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.
  • John 8:5 : 5 and in the law, Moses did command us that such be stoned; thou, therefore, what dost thou say?'
  • Acts 6:13 : 13 they set up also false witnesses, saying, `This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,
  • Acts 18:13 : 13 saying -- `Against the law this one doth persuade men to worship God;'
  • Acts 21:28 : 28 crying out, `Men, Israelites, help! this is the man who, against the people, and the law, and this place, all everywhere is teaching; and further, also, Greeks he brought into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place;'

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