Verse 16

Cursed is anyone who dishonors his father or mother. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:17 : 17 Anyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 Each of you must respect your mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 Within you, they have treated father and mother with contempt; they have oppressed the foreigner in your midst; they have wronged the orphan and the widow.
  • Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother, and they discipline him but he will not listen to them, 19 his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city. 20 They shall say to the elders, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not listen to us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
  • Prov 30:11-17 : 11 There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother. 12 There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet it is not cleansed from its filth. 13 There is a generation whose eyes are so arrogant, whose eyelids are lifted up in pride. 14 There is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind. 15 The leech has two daughters: 'Give! Give!' There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, 'Enough!' 16 The grave, the barren womb, land that is never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, 'Enough!' 17 The eye that mocks a father, that scorns obedience to a mother, will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
  • Lev 20:9 : 9 Anyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood is upon him.
  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.’ 5 But you say that if anyone declares to their father or mother, ‘What you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ 6 they are not to honor their father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.