Luke 16:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

Luke 16:17 —

Old words in this verse

jot: — the smallest letter, the smallest mark.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 5:18
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Luke 21:33
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
1 Peter 1:25
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Isaiah 40:8
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Romans 3:31
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-18)

We mistake if we imagine that the design of Christ’s doctrine and holy religion was either to amuse us with notions of divine mysteries or to entertain us with notions of divine mercies. No, the divine revelation of both these in the gospel is intended to engage and quicken us to the practice of Christian duties, and, as much as any one thing, to the duty of beneficence and doing good to those who…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

14-18. covetous ... derided him--sneered at Him; their master sin being too plainly struck at for them to relish. But it was easier to run down than to refute such teaching.