Verse 17

Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:20 : 20 If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • Lev 20:9-9 : 9 Every man cursing his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death; because of his curse on his father or his mother, his blood will be on him. 10 And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.
  • Matt 15:3-6 : 3 And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you? 4 For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death. 5 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God; 6 There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.
  • Mark 7:10-11 : 10 For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death: 11 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,