Matthew 5:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfill.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Do not think that I have come to do away with or undo the Law or the Prophets; I have come not to do away with or undo but to complete and fulfill them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ “Don’t even begin to think that I have come to do away with the Law and the Prophets. I haven’t come to do away with them but to fulfill them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Do not think that I have come to loosen the law or the prophets. I have not come to loosen, but to fulfill.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Matthew 5:17 Cross References

Isaiah 42:21

It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honourable.

Matthew 3:15

But Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffereth him.

Matthew 7:12

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Luke 16:17

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

John 8:5

Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such: what then sayest thou of her?

Acts 18:13

saying, This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

Acts 21:28

crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place: and moreover he brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place.

Acts 6:13

and set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against this holy place, and the law:

Romans 10:4

For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one that believeth.

Romans 3:31

Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.

Romans 8:4

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.