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16 The Law and the Prophets were until John. From that time on, the kingdom of God is being announced-as-good-news, and everyone is forcing-himself [a] into it. 17 But it is easier that the heaven and the earth should pass away than that one stroke[b] of the Law should fail. 18 Everyone sending-away[c] his wife and marrying another is committing-adultery. And the one marrying one having been sent-away from her husband is committing-adultery.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 16:16 That is, trying to force his way into it, whether on God’s terms or not.
  2. Luke 16:17 See Mt 5:18.
  3. Luke 16:18 That is, divorcing. This is an example of the difference in values mentioned in v 15, and a law that will not fail in v 17.

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