Matthew 5:17
“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.
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Psalms 40:6In offerings bloody or bloodless you have no delight, but with open ears you have made me. Burnt-offering and offering for sin are not what you ask.
Matthew 3:15“This is the way it should be for now,” Jesus answered, “because we should do everything that God requires.” So John agreed.
Luke 16:17It would be easier for the heavens and the earth to disappear than for one stroke of a letter in the Law to be lost.
Acts 6:13There they produced witnesses who gave false evidence. “This man,” they said, “is incessantly saying things against this holy place and the Law;
Acts 21:28“People of Israel! Help! This is the man who teaches everyone 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.”
Romans 8:4so 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.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 5:14-17
The Sermon on the Mount. 13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify… Read the whole commentary →