Matthew 15:6 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁶ this person does not honor his father [or mother]. You have made God’s message useless by [thus enforcing] your traditions.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ and honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ So for the sake of your tradition (the rules handed down by your forefathers), you have set aside the Word of God [depriving it of force and authority and making it of no effect].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.

Common English Bible

⁶ So you do away with God’s Law for the sake of the rules that have been handed down to you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ then he shall not honor his father or his mother.' So have you nullified the commandment of God, for the sake of your tradition.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And he shall not honour his father or his mother: and you have made void the commandment of God for your tradition.

Matthew 15:6 Cross References

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 15:7

You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied accurately about you, saying [Isa. 29:13],

Mark 7:13

You are making God’s message useless by [enforcing] the tradition you have been following. And you do many things like that.”

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.

1 Timothy 5:16

[So], if any woman believer has widows [in her family], she should take care of them and not require the church to be burdened, so that it can take care of the true widows [i.e., destitute ones].

1 Timothy 5:8

But if anyone does not provide for [the needs of] his own [relatives], and especially for his own [immediate] family, he has denied the faith [i.e., the fundamental beliefs of Christianity], and is worse than an unbeliever.