Luke 16:17
Good News Translation
But it is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the smallest detail of the Law to be done away with.

New Revised Standard Version
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one stroke of a letter in the law to be dropped.

Contemporary English Version
Heaven and earth will disappear before the smallest letter of the Law does.

New American Bible
It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for the smallest part of a letter of the law to become invalid.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

it.

Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

Psalm 102:25-27 In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands. . . .

Isaiah 51:6 Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish like smoke, and the earth shall be worn away like a garment, and the inhabitants thereof shall perish in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice shall not fail.

Matthew 5:18 For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled.

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence and the elements shall be melted with heat and the earth and the works which are in it shall be burnt up.

Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne and one sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away: and there was no place found for them

Revelation 21:1,4 I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone: and the sea is now no more. . . .

than.

Isaiah 40:8 The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of our Lord endureth for ever.

Romans 3:31 Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we establish the law.

1 Peter 1:25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel hath been preached unto you.

Context
The Law and the Prophets
16The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the kingdom of God is preached: and every one useth violence towards it. 17And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass than one tittle of the law to fall. 18Every one that putteth away his wife and marrieth another committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:18
For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled.

Luke 21:33
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

Luke 16:16
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