Matthew 15:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Ps 119:126 : 126 It is time for You to act, O LORD, for they have regarded Your law as void.
  • 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
  • 1 Tim 5:16 : 16 If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and do not let the church be burdened, so that it may relieve those who are truly widows.
  • Ps 119:139 : 139 My zeal has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten Your words.
  • Jer 8:8 : 8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Behold, certainly in vain he made it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being a priest to me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your 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 you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts. 9 Therefore, I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways but have been partial in the law.
  • Mark 7:13 : 13 Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have handed down; and you do many similar things.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not: on the contrary, we establish the law.
  • 1 Tim 5:3-4 : 3 Honor widows who are truly widows. 4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents, for this is good and acceptable before God.

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

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

    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;

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

    6He answered and said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

    7However, in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

    8For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, such as the washing of pots and cups; and many other similar things you do.

    9And he said to them, You completely reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.

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

    11But 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.

    12And you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

    13Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have handed down; and you do many similar things.

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    7You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

    8This people draws near to me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

    9But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

    10And he called the multitude, and said to them, Hear, and understand:

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

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

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

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    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.

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

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

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    37He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

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