Matthew 15:4 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴ For God said, [Ex. 20:12], ‘Give honor to your father and mother,’ and [Ex. 21:17], ‘Whoever says bad things about his father or mother should surely be put to death.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ For God commanded, Honor your father and your mother, and, He who curses or reviles or speaks evil of or abuses or treats improperly his father or mother, let him surely come to his end by death. [Exod. 20:12; 21:17; Lev. 20:9; Deut. 5:16.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

Common English Bible

⁴ For God said, Honor your father and your mother, and The person who speaks against father or mother will certainly be put to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ 'Honor your father and mother,' and, 'Whoever will have cursed father or mother shall die a death.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death.

Matthew 15:4 Cross References

Matthew 15:3

And He answered them, “Why do you also violate the commandments of God by [following] your traditions?

Matthew 15:5

But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, I have given to God the money I could have helped you with;’

Matthew 19:19

Show honor to your father and mother. And you must love your neighbor the same as you love yourself.”

Matthew 4:10

Then Jesus replied to him, “Get away from me Satan, for it is written [Deut. 6:13], ‘You are supposed to worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him.’”

Romans 3:31

Do we then [intend to] destroy law [observance] because faith [in Christ is now required]? Certainly not! But [instead], we uphold [the validity of] law.

Ephesians 6:1

Children, you should obey your parents in the Lord [i.e., as part of your Christian responsibility], for this is the right thing to do.