Matthew 15:4

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.’

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  • Exod 20:12 : 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.
  • Exod 21:17 : 17 “Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.
  • Deut 5:16 : 16 Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.
  • Lev 20:9 : 9 Family Life and Sexual Prohibitions“‘If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.
  • Matt 19:19 : 19 honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.”
  • Prov 23:22 : 22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
  • Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail, 19 his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city. 20 They must declare to the elders of his city,“Our son is stubborn and rebellious and pays no attention to what we say– he is a glutton and drunkard.” 21 Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out wickedness from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.
  • Eph 6:1 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 ‘Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother– the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 Then you must recall the LORD’s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.
  • Matt 4:10 : 10 Then Jesus said to him,“Go away, Satan! For it is written:‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”
  • Matt 5:17-19 : 17 Fulfillment of the Law and Prophets“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them. 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter will pass from the law until everything takes place. 19 So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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  • Mark 7:9-12
    4 verses
    92%

    9He also said to them,“You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.

    10For Moses said,‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and,‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

    11But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother,‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban’(that is, a gift for God),

    12then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.

  • Exod 21:17
    87%

    17“Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

  • Lev 20:9
    87%

    9Family Life and Sexual Prohibitions“‘If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.

  • Matt 15:5-7
    3 verses
    86%

    5But you say,‘If someone tells his father or mother,“Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”

    6he does not need to honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.

    7Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,

  • Exod 21:15
    85%

    15“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

  • Deut 5:16-17
    2 verses
    84%

    16Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.

    17You must not murder.

  • Exod 20:12-13
    2 verses
    82%

    12“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.

    13“You shall not murder.

  • Deut 27:16
    80%

    16‘Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • Matt 19:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18“Which ones?” he asked. Jesus replied,“Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony,

    19honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.”

  • Eph 6:1-4
    4 verses
    79%

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

    2“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

    3“that it will go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”

    4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  • Prov 30:11
    78%

    11There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

  • Matt 15:3
    77%

    3He answered them,“And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

  • Prov 20:20
    76%

    20The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness.

  • Luke 18:20
    76%

    20You know the commandments:‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’”

  • Mark 10:19
    75%

    19You know the commandments:‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.’”

  • Lev 24:15-17
    3 verses
    75%

    15Moreover, you are to tell the Israelites,‘If any man curses his God he will bear responsibility for his sin,

    16and one who misuses the name of the LORD must surely be put to death. The whole congregation must surely stone him, whether he is a resident foreigner or a native citizen; when he misuses the Name he must be put to death.

    17“‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.

  • Lev 19:3
    73%

    3Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

  • Prov 19:26
    73%

    26The one who robs his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

  • Prov 23:22
    73%

    22Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Prov 6:20
    73%

    20My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

  • Prov 28:24
    73%

    24The one who robs his father and mother and says,“There is no transgression,” is a companion to the one who destroys.

  • Exod 31:14
    72%

    14So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death; indeed, if anyone does any work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his people.

  • Matt 5:21
    72%

    21Anger and Murder“You have heard that it was said to an older generation,‘Do not murder,’ and‘whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.’

  • Matt 10:21
    72%

    21“Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

  • Mark 13:12
    72%

    12Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

  • John 5:23
    71%

    23so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

  • Ezek 18:18
    71%

    18As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.

  • Prov 1:8
    71%

    8Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

  • Deut 21:18
    71%

    18If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,

  • Col 3:20
    71%

    20Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.

  • Deut 24:16
    71%

    16Fathers must not be put to death for what their children do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin.

  • Matt 10:37
    71%

    37“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

  • Lev 20:11
    70%

    11If a man goes to bed with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

  • Lev 19:32
    70%

    32You must stand up in the presence of the aged, honor the presence of an elder, and fear your God. I am the LORD.

  • Exod 35:2
    70%

    2In six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.