Matthew 5:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸For 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.

Matthew 5:18 —

Old words in this verse

jot: — the smallest letter, the smallest mark.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 16:17
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Isaiah 40:8
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
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.
Psalms 119:89-90
LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. …
Matthew 24:34-35
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. …

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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. 18)

18. For verily I say unto you--Here, for the first time, does that august expression occur in our Lord’s recorded teaching, with which we have grown so familiar as hardly to reflect on its full import. It is the expression manifestly, of supreme legislative authority; and as the subject in connection with which it is uttered is the Moral Law, no higher claim to an authority strictly divine could b…