17 It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void.
17 The sky will disintegrate and the earth dissolve before a single letter of God's Law wears out.
17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to fail.
17 But that doesn't mean that the law has lost its force. It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the smallest point of God's law to be overturned.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Luke 16:17
Commentary on Luke 16:13-18
(Read Luke 16:13-18)
To this parable our Lord added a solemn warning. Ye cannot serve God and the world, so divided are the two interests. When our Lord spoke thus, the covetous Pharisees treated his instructions with contempt. But he warned them, that what they contended for as the law, was a wresting of its meaning: this our Lord showed in a case respecting divorce. There are many covetous sticklers for the forms of godliness, who are the bitterest enemies to its power, and try to set others against the truth.