Matthew 15:4 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁴ For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, with death let him die.'

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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

He answered and said to them, "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God on account of your tradition?

Matthew 15:5

But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or mother, "[It is] a gift [to God], whatever profit you might have received from me"-

Matthew 19:19

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

Matthew 4:10

Then Jesus said to him, "Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him alone you shall serve.' "

Romans 3:31

Therefore do we nullify the law through faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold [the] law.

Ephesians 6:1

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