Matthew 5:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Matthew 5:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 10:4
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Luke 16:17
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Galatians 4:4-5
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, …
Romans 8:4
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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. 17-20)

Those to whom Christ preached, and for whose use he gave these instructions to his disciples, were such as in their religion had an eye, 1. To the scriptures of the Old Testament as their rule, and therein Christ here shows them they were in the right: 2. To the scribes and the Pharisees as their example, and therein Christ here shows them they were in the wrong; for, I. The rule which Christ came…

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

(vv. 17)

17. Think not that I am come--that I came. to destroy the law, or the prophets--that is, “the authority and principles of the Old Testament.” (On the phrase, see Mt 7:12; 22:40; Lu 16:16; Ac 13:15). This general way of taking the phrase is much better than understanding “the law” and “the prophets” separately, and inquiring, as many good critics do, in what sense our Lord could be supposed to medi…