Matthew 15:4

American Standard Version (1901)

For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

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  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
  • Exod 21:17 : 17 And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
  • Deut 5:16 : 16 Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
  • Lev 20:9 : 9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
  • Matt 19:19 : 19 Honor thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
  • Prov 23:22 : 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
  • Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them; 19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 20 and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21 And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
  • Eph 6:1 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
  • Matt 4:10 : 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
  • Matt 5:17-19 : 17 Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished. 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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  • Mark 7:9-12
    4 verses
    92%

    9And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.

    10For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:

    11but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God] ;

    12ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;

  • Exod 21:17
    87%

    17And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

  • Lev 20:9
    87%

    9For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

  • Matt 15:5-7
    3 verses
    86%

    5But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given [to God] ;

    6he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.

    7Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

  • Exod 21:15
    85%

    15And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

  • Deut 5:16-17
    2 verses
    84%

    16Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

    17Thou shalt not kill.

  • Exod 20:12-13
    2 verses
    82%

    12Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

    13Thou shalt not kill.

  • Deut 27:16
    80%

    16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Matt 19:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18He saith unto him, Which? And Jesus said, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,

    19Honor thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

  • Eph 6:1-4
    4 verses
    79%

    1Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

    2Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),

    3that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

    4And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

  • Prov 30:11
    78%

    11There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother.

  • Matt 15:3
    77%

    3And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?

  • Prov 20:20
    76%

    20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

  • Luke 18:20
    76%

    20Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor thy father and mother.

  • Mark 10:19
    75%

    19Thou knowest the commandments, Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor thy father and mother.

  • Lev 24:15-17
    3 verses
    75%

    15And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.

    16And he that blasphemeth the name of Jehovah, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the sojourner, as the home-born, when he blasphemeth the name [of Jehovah], shall be put to death.

    17And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

  • Lev 19:3
    73%

    3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.

  • Prov 19:26
    73%

    26He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

  • Prov 23:22
    73%

    22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

  • Prov 6:20
    73%

    20My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

  • Prov 28:24
    73%

    24Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, The same is the companion of a destroyer.

  • Exod 31:14
    72%

    14Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

  • Matt 5:21
    72%

    21Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:

  • Matt 10:21
    72%

    21And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  • Mark 13:12
    72%

    12And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  • John 5:23
    71%

    23that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father that sent him.

  • Ezek 18:18
    71%

    18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.

  • Prov 1:8
    71%

    8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

  • Deut 21:18
    71%

    18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;

  • Col 3:20
    71%

    20Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

  • Deut 24:16
    71%

    16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

  • Matt 10:37
    71%

    37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

  • Lev 20:11
    70%

    11And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

  • Lev 19:32
    70%

    32Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

  • Exod 35:2
    70%

    2Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of solemn rest to Jehovah: whosoever doeth any work therein shall be put to death.