Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse V · §3 · John Wesley

One jot or one tittle

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For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no way pass from the law, until all is fulfilled (Matthew 5:18). Matthew 5:18.

1771 text

For verily I say unto you, ’till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, ’till all be fulfilled.

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The fifth sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 5:17-20: Christ came to fulfill the law, not to destroy it, and the righteousness that exceeds the Pharisees'.

EditionPrinted in Wesley's 1771 Works, which do not say when he preached it

Wesley's own sermon in updated English wording. The 1771 panel is the text of the Works Wesley himself had printed in 1771. It is public domain.

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Sermon 25 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 5:17-20.

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