Matthew 15:4

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD 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 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath command 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.
  • Lev 20:9 : 9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
  • Matt 19:19 : 19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour 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, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: 19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elrs of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 20 And they shall say unto the elrs 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 with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make void the law thugh faith? God forbid: yea, 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 keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD 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 obscure 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, it is because there is no light in 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 am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mark 7:9-12
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    9 And 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;

  • Exod 21:17
    87%

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

  • Lev 20:9
    87%

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

  • Matt 15:5-7
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    86%

    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;

    6 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.

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

  • Exod 21:15
    85%

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

  • Deut 5:16-17
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    16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath command 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.

    17 Thou shalt not kill.

  • Exod 20:12-13
    2 verses
    82%

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

    13 Thou shalt not kill.

  • Deut 27:16
    80%

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

  • Matt 19:18-19
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    80%

    18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,

    19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

  • Eph 6:1-4
    4 verses
    79%

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 30:11
    78%

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

  • Matt 15:3
    77%

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

  • Prov 20:20
    76%

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

  • Luke 18:20
    76%

    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
    75%

    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.

  • Lev 24:15-17
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    75%

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

    16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.

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

  • Lev 19:3
    73%

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

  • 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 reoach.

  • Prov 23:22
    73%

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

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

  • Prov 28:24
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    24 Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

  • Exod 31:14
    72%

    14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth 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%

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

  • Matt 10:21
    72%

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

  • Mark 13:12
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    12 Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to 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.

  • Ezek 18:18
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    18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

  • Prov 1:8
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    8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

  • Deut 21:18
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    18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

  • Col 3:20
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    20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

  • Deut 24:16
    71%

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

  • Matt 10:37
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    37 He 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
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    11 And 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
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    32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

  • Exod 35:2
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    2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.