The King James Version Bible

Matthew 5:17

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

Cross References

  1. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
  2. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
  3. Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
  4. The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
  5. And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
  6. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
  7. And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
  8. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
  9. And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
  10. Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
  11. Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
  12. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
  13. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
  14. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;