25 Agree with your adversary quickly, whiles you are in the way with him;
lest at any time the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge
deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
26 Verily I say unto you, you shall by no means come out thence, till you
have paid the uttermost farthing.
27 You have heard that it was said by them of old time,
you
shall not commit adultery:
28 But I say unto you, that whosoever looks on a woman
to
lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Yeshua at no
point instructs his disciples to disregard or stop keeping the law; rather
he uses the law as his
authority
and supports not only keeping the
letter
of the law, but the
spirit
of the law as well. Yeshua
always taught obedience to the scriptures.
Another name for the scriptures is the “Word of God.”
In John 17:17, Yeshua says:
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Sanctify them through Your word: Your word is truth.
Sha’ul
(Paul) also writes (concerning the scriptures)
2 Timothy 2:15
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Study to show yourself approved to God, a workman that needs not to be
ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Keep in mind:
the New Testament had not been compiled and much of it had not even been
written at this point. So what
then was Sha’ul (Paul) telling Timothy to study?
Paul is