Exodus 21:17

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And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

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  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Lev 20:9-9 : 9 For everyone that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him. 10 And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, even he that commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocks his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
  • Matt 15:3-6 : 3 But he answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? 4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die. 5 But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me; 6 And does not honor his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
  • Mark 7:10-11 : 10 For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him be put to death. 11 But you say, If a man says to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is, a gift to God, by which you might have been benefited by me; he shall be free.

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  • Lev 20:9-11
    3 verses
    93%

    9For everyone that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

    10And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, even he that commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

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

  • Exod 21:14-16
    3 verses
    92%

    14But if a man acts presumptuously against his neighbor, to kill him with guile, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

    15And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

    16He who kidnaps a man, and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.

  • Matt 15:4-5
    2 verses
    87%

    4For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die.

    5But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me;

  • Mark 7:10
    85%

    10For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him be put to death.

  • Deut 27:16
    83%

    16Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Prov 20:20
    82%

    20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

  • Lev 24:14-17
    4 verses
    82%

    14Bring forth him who has cursed outside the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

    15And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

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

    17And he who kills any man shall surely be put to death.

  • Exod 21:12
    81%

    12He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

  • Prov 30:11
    78%

    11There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

  • Exod 20:12-13
    2 verses
    77%

    12Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

    13You shall not murder.

  • Deut 5:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

    17You shall not kill.

  • Num 35:16-18
    3 verses
    77%

    16And if he strikes him with an iron instrument, so that he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    17And if he strikes him with throwing a stone, by which he may die, and he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    18Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon, by which he may die, and he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 21:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

    18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them,

    19Then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place;

  • Exod 21:20
    75%

    20And if a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

  • Prov 19:26
    75%

    26He who wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son who causes shame, and brings reproach.

  • Deut 21:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he may die: so shall you put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear and fear.

    22And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

  • Exod 21:18
    74%

    18If men contend with each other, and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to his bed,

  • Exod 31:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you: everyone who defiles it shall surely be put to death: for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.

    15Six days may work be done; but the seventh is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

  • Matt 19:19
    74%

    19Honor your father and your mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

  • Ezek 18:18
    74%

    18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did what is not good among his people, behold, even he shall die in his iniquity.

  • Lev 20:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13If a man also lies with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

    14And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

  • Prov 28:24
    73%

    24Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, It is no transgression, is a companion of a destroyer.

  • Matt 10:21
    73%

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

  • Deut 13:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

    10And you shall stone him with stones, that he die; because he has sought to push you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

  • Deut 17:5
    72%

    5then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed this wicked thing, and shall stone them with stones until they die.

  • Num 35:21
    72%

    21Or in enmity strikes him with his hand, so that he dies, he who struck him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meets him.

  • Matt 5:21
    72%

    21You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder,' and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment:

  • Lev 24:21
    72%

    21And he who kills a beast shall restore it: and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • Exod 35:2
    72%

    2Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

  • Eph 6:2
    72%

    2Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise;

  • Prov 23:13
    72%

    13Do not withhold correction from a child, for if you beat him with the rod, he will not die.

  • Deut 24:16
    72%

    16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

  • Num 35:31
    71%

    31Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death: but he shall surely be put to death.