Matthew 5:17-18

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The Law and the Prophets

¹⁷“Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them.^[a] ¹⁸For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.

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5.17 Jesus came to bring the old law to its natural fulfilment in the new, while discarding what had become obsolete; cf. Jn 4.21.

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