Matthew 15:6

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:126 : 126 It is time for Jehovah to work; [For] they have made void thy law.
  • 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
  • 1 Tim 5:16 : 16 If any woman that believeth hath widows, let her relieve them, and let not the church be burdened; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
  • Ps 119:139 : 139 My zeal hath consumed me, Because mine adversaries have forgotten thy words.
  • Jer 8:8 : 8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
  • Mal 2:7-9 : 7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts. 8 But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts. 9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
  • Mark 7:13 : 13 making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
  • 1 Tim 5:3-4 : 3 Honor widows that are widows indeed. 4 But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 15:2-5
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    2Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

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

    4For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

    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] ;

  • Mark 7:5-13
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    5And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?

    6And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.

    7But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.

    8Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.

    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;

    13making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

  • Matt 15:7-10
    4 verses
    80%

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

    8This people honoreth me with their lips; But their heart is far from me.

    9But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.

    10And he called to him the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:

  • Eph 6:1-2
    2 verses
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    1Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 6A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

  • 15And he said unto them, Ye are they that justify yourselves in the sight of men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

  • 15But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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

  • 5Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?

  • 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.

  • 9And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, [even] he who is in heaven.

  • 7But if ye had known what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

  • 1Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

  • 48But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?

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

  • 23thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?

  • 2But certain of the Pharisees said, Why do ye that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath day?

  • 5And he said unto them, The Son of man is lord of the sabbath.

  • 36If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

  • 33Again, ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:

  • 20these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.