Matthew 15:6
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.
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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 tu hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that tu shalt be no priest to me: seeing tu 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 thugh 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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- Matt 15:2-54 verses88%
2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
3 But 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 7:5-139 verses84%
5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
6 He 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.
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;
13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
- Matt 15:7-104 verses80%
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 6:1-22 verses74%
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;)
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19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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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.
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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.
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16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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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.
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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.
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20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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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.
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11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
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15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
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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.
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26 He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reoach.
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17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
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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.
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6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
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15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
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15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
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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.
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5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
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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.
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9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
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7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
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1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
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48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
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3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
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23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, thugh breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
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2 And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
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5 And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
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36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
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33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
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20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.