Matthew 5:17

New Century Version

“Don’t think that I have come to destroy the law of Moses or the teaching of the prophets. I have not come to destroy them but to bring about what they said.

Cross References

Isaiah 42:21

The Lord made his teachings wonderful, because he is good.

Matthew 3:15

Jesus answered, “Let it be this way for now. We should do all things that are God’s will.” So John agreed to baptize Jesus.

Matthew 7:12

“Do to others what you want them to do to you. This is the meaning of the law of Moses and the teaching of the prophets.

Luke 16:17

It would be easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for the smallest part of a letter in the law to be changed.

John 8:5

The law of Moses commands that we stone to death every woman who does this. What do you say we should do?”

Acts 18:13

They said, “This man is teaching people to worship God in a way that is against our law.”

Acts 21:28

They shouted, “People of Israel, help us! This is the man who goes everywhere teaching against the law of Moses, against our people, and against this Temple. Now he has brought some Greeks into the Temple and has made this holy place unclean!”

Acts 6:13

They brought in some people to tell lies about Stephen, saying, “This man is always speaking against this holy place and the law of Moses.

Romans 10:4

Christ ended the law so that everyone who believes in him may be right with God.

Romans 3:31

So do we destroy the law by following the way of faith? No! Faith causes us to be what the law truly wants.

Romans 8:4

He did this so that we could be the kind of people the law correctly wants us to be. Now we do not live following our sinful selves, but we live following the Spirit.