Luke 16:17 It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.

◄ Luke 16:17 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter in the law to drop out.

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

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.

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.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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