Luke 16:17
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
In context
15 So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.
16 The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
18 Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
19 Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
Luke 16:17 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
- KJV King James Version
- And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
- WEB World English Bible
- But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
- ASV American Standard Version
- But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.
- YLT 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.
- DBY Darby Translation
- But it is easier that the heaven and the earth should pass away than that one tittle of the law should fail.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than one tittle of the law to fail.