Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to do away with them, but to complete them.
"Let it be so for the present," Jesus answered, "since it is fitting for us thus to satisfy every claim of religion." Upon this, John consented.
Do to others whatever you would wish them to do to you; for that is the teaching of both the Law and the Prophets.
It would be easier for the heavens and the earth to disappear than for one stroke of a letter in the Law to be lost.
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Charging him with persuading people to worship God in a way forbidden by the Law.
"Men of Israel! help! This is the man who teaches every one everywhere against our People, our Law, and this Place; and, what is more, he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and defiled this sacred place."
There they produced witnesses who gave false evidence. "This man," they said, "is incessantly saying things against this Holy Place and the Law;
For Christ has brought Law to an end, so that righteousness may be obtained by every one who believes in him.
Do we, then, use this faith to abolish Law? Heaven forbid! No, we establish Law.
So that the requirements of the Law might be satisfied in us who live now in obedience, not to our earthly nature, but to the Spirit.