Matthew 15:6

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Ps 119:126 : 126 It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.
  • 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially 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 don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.
  • Ps 119:139 : 139 My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.
  • Jer 8:8 : 8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, 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 Yahweh of Armies. 8 But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Armies. 9 "Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
  • Mark 7:13 : 13 making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
  • 1 Tim 5:3-4 : 3 Honor widows who are widows indeed. 4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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  • Matt 15:2-5
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    2"Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread."

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

    4For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

    5But 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,"

  • Mark 7:5-13
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    5The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"

    6He answered 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.

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

    8"For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men--the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things."

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

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

    11But 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;"'

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

    13making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."

  • Matt 15:7-10
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    7You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

    8'These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

    9And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.'"

    10He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and understand.

  • Eph 6:1-2
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    1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.'"

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

  • 37He 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 23that 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.

  • 6"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'

  • 15He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

  • 15But if you don't forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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

  • 5Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

  • 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.

  • 9Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

  • 7But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

  • 1"Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

  • 48But he answered him who spoke to him, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?"

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

  • 23You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

  • 2But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?"

  • 5He said to them, "The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."

  • 36If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

  • 33"Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, 'You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,'

  • 20These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."