Matthew 15:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ γὰρ Θεὸς ἐνετείλατο, λέγων, Τίμα τὸν πατέρα σοῦ καὶ τὴν μητέρα: καί, Ὁ κακολογῶν πατέρα ἢ μητέρα, θανάτῳ τελευτάτω.

Transliteration

The for Theos eneteilato, legōn, Tima the father of you and the mother: and, The [one] kakologōn father or mother, by thanatō let him teleutatō.

Grammar Details

• *ho gar*: for the/because the
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
• *eneteilato*: aorist, indicative, middle, 3rd person singular - he commanded
• *legōn*: present participle, nominative, masculine, singular - saying
• *Tima*: present imperative, active, 2nd person singular - honor
• *patera*: accusative, masculine, singular - father
• *sou*: genitive, singular - of you/your
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *mētera*: accusative, feminine, singular - mother
• *ho kakologōn*: present participle, nominative, masculine, singular - the one speaking evil of
• *ē*: disjunctive conjunction - or
• *thanatō*: dative, masculine, singular - by death
• *teleutatō*: present imperative, active, 3rd person singular - let him end/die

Word Meanings

• *eneteilato*: commanded/ordered/charged
• *Tima*: honor/value/respect
• *kakologōn*: speaking evil of/cursing/reviling
• *thanatō*: death/termination of life
• *teleutatō*: let him end/die/expire

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.’

• 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.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  For God comaunded sayinge: honoure thy father and mother and he that cursseth father or mother shall suffer deeth.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For God comaunded, sayege: Honoure father & mother: & he yt curseth father & mother, shal dye the death.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

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

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For God comaunded, saying: honour father and mother, and he that curseth father or mother, let hym dye the death.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For God said,‘Honor your father and mother’ and‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

Referenced Verses

• Exod 20:12 : 12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
• Exod 21:17 : 17 And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
• Deut 5:16 : 16 Honor 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.
• Lev 20:9 : 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.
• Matt 19:19 : 19 Honor your father and your mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
• Prov 23:22 : 22 Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
• Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If 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, 19 Then 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; 20 And they shall say to the elders 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 may die: so shall you put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear and fear.
• Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not: on the contrary, we establish the law.
• Eph 6:1 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
• Lev 19:3 : 3 You shall respect every man his mother and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
• Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
• Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.
• 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.
• Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
• Matt 4:10 : 10 Then Jesus said to him, Go away, Satan, for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and only him shall you serve.
• Matt 5:17-19 : 17 Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets: I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill. 18 For truly I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle will by any means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. 19 Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.