Matthew 15:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ For God said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely 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.'

Matthew 15:4 Cross References

Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Leviticus 20:9

All who curse father or mother shall be put to death; having cursed father or mother, their bloodguilt is upon them.

Exodus 21:17

“Whoever curses father or mother shall be put to death.

Deuteronomy 5:16

“ ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Proverbs 23:22

Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Leviticus 19:3

You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 19:19

Honor your father and mother. Also, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Ephesians 6:1

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

Proverbs 20:20

If you curse father or mother, your lamp will go out in utter darkness.

Deuteronomy 27:16

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors father or mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

Romans 3:31

Do we then overthrow the law through this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Matthew 4:10

Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! for it is written, ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.’ ”

Isaiah 8:20

for teaching and for instruction?” surely those who speak like this will have no dawn!

Matthew 15:3

He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

Matthew 15:5

But you say that whoever tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is given to God,’ then that person need not honor the father.