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16 Let your light so shine before men that they may see your [a]moral excellence and your praiseworthy, noble, and good deeds and [b]recognize and honor and praise and glorify your Father Who is in heaven.

17 Do not think that I have come to do away with or [c]undo the Law or the Prophets; I have come not to do away with or undo but to complete and fulfill them.

18 For truly I tell you, until the sky and earth pass away and perish, not one smallest letter nor one little hook [identifying certain Hebrew letters] will pass from the Law until all things [it foreshadows] are accomplished.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 5:16 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
  2. Matthew 5:16 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
  3. Matthew 5:17 John Wycliffe, The Wycliffe Bible.

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