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Matthew 5:17 (KJV)

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

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Psalms 40:6 - Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Isaiah 42:21 - The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make [it] honourable.
Matthew 3:15 - And Jesus answering said unto him, ‹Suffer› [it to be so] ‹now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.› Then he suffered him.
Matthew 7:12 - ‹Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.›
Luke 16:17 - ‹And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.›
John 8:5 - Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
Acts 6:13 - And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
Acts 18:13 - Saying, This [fellow] persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
Acts 21:28 - Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all [men] every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
Romans 3:31 - Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Romans 8:4 - That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 10:4 - For Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Galatians 3:17 - And this I say, [that] the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Galatians 4:4 - But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Colossians 2:16 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath [days]:
Hebrews 10:3 - But in those [sacrifices there is] a remembrance again [made] of sins every year.

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