Matthew 5:17 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁷ Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to complete.

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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 has delighted יהוה, for the sake of His righteousness, to make the Torah great and esteemed.

Matthew 3:15

But יהושע answering, said to him, “Permit it now, for thus it is fitting for us to fill all righteousness.” Then he permitted Him.

Matthew 7:12

“Therefore, whatever you wish men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Torah and the Prophets.

Luke 16:17

And it is easier for the heaven and the earth to pass away than for one tittle of the Torah to fall.

John 8:5

And in the Torah Mosheh commanded us that such should be stoned. What then do You say?

Acts 18:13

saying, “This one does seduce men to worship Elohim contrary to the Torah.”

Acts 21:28

crying out, “Men of Yisra’ĕl, help! This is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people, and the Torah, and this place. And besides, he also brought Greeks into the Set-apart Place and has profaned this Set-apart Place.”

Acts 6:13

And they set up false witnesses who said, “This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this set-apart place and the Torah,

Romans 10:4

For Messiah is the goal of the ‘Torah unto righteousness’ to everyone who believes.

Romans 3:31

Do we then nullify the Torah through the belief? Let it not be! On the contrary, we establish the Torah.

Romans 8:4

so that the righteousness of the Torah should be completed in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.