Matthew 5:17 Cross References - Williams

¹⁷ "Do not suppose that I have come to set aside the law or the prophets.

¹⁵ But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now, for this is the fitting way for both of us to do our full duty to God." Then he yielded to Him.

¹² Then you must practice dealing with others as you would like for them to deal with you, for this is the summing up of the law and the prophets.

¹⁷ It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dotting of an 'i' in the law to fail.

⁵ In our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now, what do you say?"

¹³ Then they put up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops saying things against this holy place and against the law,

¹³ and said, "This fellow is inducing people to worship God in ways that violate our laws."

²⁸ as they kept shouting, "Men of Israel, help! help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the law and this place; yea, more than that, he has actually brought Greeks into the temple and desecrated this sacred place."

³¹ Do we then through faith make null and void the law? Not at all; instead, we confirm it.

⁴ so that the requirement of the law might be fully met in us who do not live by the standard set by our lower nature, but by the standard set by the Spirit.

⁴ For Christ has put an end to law as a way to right standing for everyone who puts his trust in Him.

¹⁷ I mean this: The law which was given four hundred and thirty years later could not annul the contract which had already been ratified by God, so as to cancel the promise. ¹⁸ For if our inheritance depends on the law, it can no longer depend on the promise. But it was by promise that God so graciously bestowed it upon Abraham. ¹⁹ Then what about the law? It was added later on to increase transgressions, until the descendant to whom the promise was made should come, enacted through the agency of angels in the person of an intermediary. ²⁰ Though an intermediary implies more than one party, yet God is only one. ²¹ Is the law then contrary to God's promises? Of course not. For if a law had been given that was able to impart life, surely, then, right standing would have come through law. ²² But the Scripture pictures all mankind as prisoners of sin, so that the promised blessing through faith in Christ might be given to those who have faith. ²³ But before this faith came, we were kept locked up under the law, in preparation for the faith which was to be unveiled. ²⁴ So the law has been our attendant to lead us to Christ, so that we might through faith obtain right standing with God.

⁴ but when the proper time had come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born subject to law, ⁵ to ransom those who were subject to law, so that we might be adopted as sons.

¹⁶ Stop letting anyone pass judgment on you in matters of eating and drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly feasts or sabbaths. ¹⁷ These were but the shadow of what was coming; the reality belongs to Christ.

³ On the other hand, through these sacrifices there is given a real reminder of their sins, ⁴ for the blood of bulls and goats is unable to take away sins. ⁵ So, when Christ was coming into the world, He said: ⁶ "Sacrifice and offering you did not wish, but a body you have prepared for me; in burnt-offerings and sin-offerings you never took delight. ⁷ Then I said, 'See, I have come, just as the Scripture writes about me in the book, O God, to do your will.'" ⁸ Although at first He said, "You never wished or took delight in sacrifices and offerings, burnt-offerings and sin-offerings" -- all of which are repeatedly offered in accordance with the law -- ⁹ He afterward said, "See, I have come to do your will." He is taking away the first to let the second take its place. ¹⁰ It is by this will of God that we are consecrated through the offering of Jesus' body once for all. ¹¹ Every other priest stands officiating day after day and over and over again offering the same sacrifices, although they are unable to take away our sins. ¹² But this One offered up once for all and for all time one sacrifice for sins, and once for all took His seat at God's right hand,