Matthew 5:17 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁷ Do not imagine I have come to destroy the Law or the prophets; I have not come to destroy but to fulfil.

¹⁵ But Jesus answered him, "Come now, this is how we should fulfil all our duty to God." Then John gave in to him.

¹² Well then, whatever you would like men to do to you, do just the same to them; that is the meaning of the Law and the prophets.

¹⁷ Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for an iota of the Law to lapse.

⁵ Now Moses has commanded us in the Law to stone such creatures; but what do you say?"

¹³ They also brought forward false witnesses to say, "This fellow is never done talking against this holy Place and the Law!

¹³ crying, "This fellow incites men to worship God contrary to the Law."

²⁸ shouting, "To the rescue, men of Israel! Here is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against the People and the Law and this Place! And he has actually brought Greeks inside the temple and defiled this holy Place!"

³¹ Then 'by this faith' we 'cancel the Law'? Not for one moment! We uphold the Law.

⁴ in order to secure the fulfilment of the Law's requirements in our lives, as we live and move not by the flesh but by the Spirit.

⁴ Now Christ is an end to law, so as to let every believer have righteousness.

¹⁷ My point is this: the Law which arose four hundred and thirty years later does not repeal a will previously ratified by God, so as to cancel the Promise. ¹⁸ If the Inheritance is due to law, it ceases to be due to promise. Now it was by a promise that God bestowed it on Abraham. ¹⁹ Then what about the Law? Well, it was interpolated for the purpose of producing transgressions till such time as the Offspring arrived to whom the Promise was made; also, it was transmitted by means of angels through the agency of an intermediary ²⁰ (an intermediary implies more than one party, but God is one). ²¹ Then the Law is contrary to God's Promises? Never! Had there been any law which had the power of producing life, righteousness would really have been due to law, ²² but Scripture has consigned all without exception to the custody of sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith. ²³ Before this faith came, we were confined by the Law and kept in custody, with the prospect of the faith that was to be revealed; ²⁴ the Law thus held us as wards in discipline, till such time as Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.

⁴ but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, ⁵ to ransom those who were under the Law, that we might get our sonship.

¹⁶ So let no one take you to task on questions of eating and drinking or in connexion with the observance of festivals or new moons or sabbaths. ¹⁷ All that is the mere shadow of what is to be; the substance belongs to Christ.

³ As it is, they are an annual reminder of sins ⁴ (for the blood of bulls and goats cannot possibly remove sins!). ⁵ Hence, on entering the world he says, Thou hast no desire for sacrifice or offering; it is a body thou hast prepared for me — ⁶ in holocausts and sin-offerings thou takest no delight. ⁷ So I said, 'Here I come — in the roll of the book this is written of me — I come to do thy will, O God.' ⁸ He begins by saying, thou hast no desire for, thou takest no delight in, sacrifices and offerings and holocausts and sin-offerings (and these are what are offered in terms of the Law); ⁹ he then adds, Here I come to do thy will. He does away with the first in order to establish the second. ¹⁰ And it is by this will that we are consecrated, because Jesus Christ once for all has offered up his body. ¹¹ Again, while every priest stands daily at his service, offering the same sacrifices repeatedly, sacrifices which never can take sins away — ¹² He offered a single sacrifice for sins and then seated himself for all time at the right hand of God,