I Didn't Come to Destroy, but to Fulfill

Jesus frames the Law with fulfilment and calls for deeper righteousness.

Jesus refuses abolitionism and refuses legal minimalism. He speaks of fulfilment, and of a righteousness exceeding the scribes and Pharisees.

Scripture

Matthew 5:17-20
Matthew 5:17-20

17 "Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill.

18 For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

19 Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

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