Luke 16:17
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New International Version (©1984)
It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But that doesn't mean that the law has lost its force. It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the smallest point of God's law to be overturned.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

International Standard Version (©2008)
However, it is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for one stroke of a letter in the Law to be dropped.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“But it is easier for Heaven and earth to pass away than for one symbol of The Law to pass away.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
It is easier for the earth and the heavens to disappear than to drop a comma from Moses' Teachings.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one dot of the law to fail.

American King James Version
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one pronunciation mark of the law to fail.

American Standard Version
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fall.

Darby Bible Translation
But it is easier that the heaven and the earth should pass away than that one tittle of the law should fail.

English Revised Version
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.

Webster's Bible Translation
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than one tittle of the law to fail.

Weymouth New Testament
But it is easier for earth and sky to pass away than for one smallest detail of the Law to fall to the ground.

World English Bible
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

Young's Literal Translation
and it is easier to the heaven and the earth to pass away, than of the law one tittle to fall.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 5:18.


Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

For heaven and earth to pass - See on Matthew 5:17, Matthew 5:18 (note).


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass,.... This is said by Christ, lest it should be thought by his saying, that the law and the prophets were until John, that they were no longer, nor of any more use; but were now abrogated and laid aside; whereas heaven and earth might sooner pass away, and the whole frame of nature be dissolved:

than one tittle of the law to fail; which, and the prophets, in all the precepts, promises, types, figures, prophecies, &c. thereof, had their full accomplishment in the person, miracles, obedience, sufferings, and death of Christ; see Matthew 5:18.


Vincent's Word Studies

Tittle

See on Matthew 5:18.


Geneva Study Bible

And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.


People's New Testament

16:17 Than one tittle of the law to fail. See PNT Mt 5:18.


Wesley's Notes

16:17 Not that the Gospel at all destroys the law. Mt 5:18.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

17. it is easier, &c.-(See on [1679]Mt 5:17, 18)


Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:13-18 To this parable our Lord added a solemn warning. Ye cannot serve God and the world, so divided are the two interests. When our Lord spoke thus, the covetous Pharisees treated his instructions with contempt. But he warned them, that what they contended for as the law, was a wresting of its meaning: this our Lord showed in a case respecting divorce. There are many covetous sticklers for the forms of godliness, who are the bitterest enemies to its power, and try to set others against the truth.


Matthew 5:18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Detail Disappear Dot Drop Dropped Earth Easier End Fail Fall Ground Heaven Law Pen Sky Smallest Stroke Tiny Tittle Void


And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

it. 21:33 Ps 102:25-27 Isa 51:6 Mt 5:18 2Pe 3:10 Re 20:11 21:1,4

than. Isa 40:8 Ro 3:31 1Pe 1:25

Luke Chapter 16 Verse 17

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