“Do not presume that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill.

For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter shall pass from the Law, until all is accomplished!

“In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’

Peter’s Mother-in-law and Many Others Healed

When Jesus came into Peter’s home, He saw his mother-in-law lying sick in bed with a fever.

For I came to turn a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.

Now when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath!”

how he entered the house of God, and they ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone?

Or have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath, and yet are innocent?

And a man was there whose hand was withered. And they questioned Jesus, asking, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might bring charges against Him.

How much more valuable then is a person than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness,

For John had been saying to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?”

Is it not lawful for me to do what I want with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?’

And one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him:

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”

Upon these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.”

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the Law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

So you too, outwardly appear righteous to people, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

And because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will become cold.

The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, “It is not lawful to put them in the temple treasury, since it is money paid for blood.”