and teaches them, this one will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter into the kingdom of heaven’ (Matt. 5:19–20). The law will not and cannot be abolished (5:17–18—including the repeated verb katalyō; 5:17), but it can and will be broken, 19 (including the verb lyō).9 This happens when people disregard or disobey its commands, or supplant them with human traditions
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