Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Matthew 5:18, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Luke 16:17
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
- Isaiah 40:8
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
- Psalms 119:89
For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
- 1 Peter 1:25
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
- Matthew 24:34
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
- Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a ga…
- Mark 13:30
Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
- Revelation 20:11
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
- Psalms 102:26
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be change…
- Luke 21:32
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
- Matthew 18:3
And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
- John 5:19
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what t…
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How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.