Matthew 15:4

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.'

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  • Exod 20:12 : 12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
  • Exod 21:17 : 17 "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
  • Deut 5:16 : 16 "Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
  • Lev 20:9 : 9 "'For everyone who 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 mother.' And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"
  • Prov 23:22 : 22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.
  • Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them; 19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place; 20 and they shall tell 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 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
  • Eph 6:1 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 "The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
  • Matt 4:10 : 10 Then Jesus said to him, "Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.'"
  • Matt 5:17-19 : 17 "Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill. 18 For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished. 19 Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

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  • Mark 7:9-12
    4 verses
    92%

    9 He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

    10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

    11 But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"'

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

  • Exod 21:17
    87%

    17 "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

  • Lev 20:9
    87%

    9 "'For everyone who 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 15:5-7
    3 verses
    86%

    5 But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,"

    6 he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

    7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

  • Exod 21:15
    85%

    15 "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

  • Deut 5:16-17
    2 verses
    84%

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

    17 "You shall not murder.

  • Exod 20:12-13
    2 verses
    82%

    12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

    13 "You shall not murder.

  • Deut 27:16
    80%

    16 'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Matt 19:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18 He said to him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, "'You shall not murder.' 'You shall not commit adultery.' 'You shall not steal.' 'You shall not offer false testimony.'

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

  • Eph 6:1-4
    4 verses
    79%

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

    2 "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:

    3 "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."

    4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  • Prov 30:11
    78%

    11 There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.

  • Matt 15:3
    77%

    3 He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

  • Prov 20:20
    76%

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

  • Luke 18:20
    76%

    20 You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,' 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'"

  • Mark 10:19
    75%

    19 You 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%

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

    16 He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

    17 "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

  • Lev 19:3
    73%

    3 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

  • Prov 19:26
    73%

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

  • Prov 23:22
    73%

    22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.

  • Prov 6:20
    73%

    20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.

  • Prov 28:24
    73%

    24 Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, "It's not wrong." He is a partner with a destroyer.

  • Exod 31:14
    72%

    14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

  • Matt 5:21
    72%

    21 "You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.'

  • Matt 10:21
    72%

    21 "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  • Mark 13:12
    72%

    12 "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  • John 5:23
    71%

    23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.

  • Ezek 18:18
    71%

    18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.

  • Prov 1:8
    71%

    8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

  • Deut 21:18
    71%

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

  • Col 3:20
    71%

    20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

  • Deut 24:16
    71%

    16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

  • Matt 10:37
    71%

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

  • Lev 20:11
    70%

    11 "'The man who 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.

  • Lev 19:32
    70%

    32 "'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

  • Exod 35:2
    70%

    2 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.