17And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
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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.
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
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…
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