Matthew 15:6

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹And honour not his father or his mother,› [he shall be free]. ‹Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.›

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  • Ps 119:126 : 126 ¶ It is time for [thee], LORD, to work: [for] they have made void thy law.
  • 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
  • 1 Tim 5:16 : 16 If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
  • Ps 119:139 : 139 ¶ My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
  • Jer 8:8 : 8 How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the scribes [is] in vain.
  • 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 will also 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 the LORD of hosts. 8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD 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 been partial in the law.
  • Mark 7:13 : 13 ‹Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.›
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
  • 1 Tim 5:3-4 : 3 ¶ Honour widows that are widows indeed. 4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

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    88%

    2Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

    3But he answered and said unto them, ‹Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?›

    4‹For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.›

    5‹But ye say, Whosoever shall say to› [his] ‹father or› [his] ‹mother,› [It is] ‹a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;›

  • Mark 7:5-13
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    84%

    5Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

    6He answered and said unto them, ‹Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with› [their] ‹lips, but their heart is far from me.›

    7‹Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching› [for] ‹doctrines the commandments of men.›

    8‹For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men,› [as] ‹the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.›

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

    10‹For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:›

    11‹But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother,› [It is] ‹Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;› [he shall be free].

    12‹And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;›

    13‹Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.›

  • Matt 15:7-10
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    80%

    7[Ye] ‹hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,›

    8‹This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with› [their] ‹lips; but their heart is far from me.›

    9‹But in vain they do worship me, teaching› [for] ‹doctrines the commandments of men.›

    10¶ And he called the multitude, and said unto them, ‹Hear, and understand:›

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

    2Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

  • Matt 19:19
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    19‹Honour thy father and› [thy] ‹mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.›

  • Deut 5:16
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    16Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

  • Exod 20:12
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    12¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

  • Deut 27:16
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    16Cursed [be] he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Luke 18:20
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    20‹Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.›

  • Mark 10:19
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    19‹Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.›

  • Prov 6:20
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    20¶ My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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    11[There is] a generation [that] curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

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

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  • Prov 19:26
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    26¶ He that wasteth [his] father, [and] chaseth away [his] mother, [is] a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

  • Exod 21:17
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    17And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

  • John 5:23
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    23‹That all› [men] ‹should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.›

  • Mal 1:6
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  • Matt 12:5
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    20‹These are› [the things] ‹which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.›