Matthew 15:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him 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.'

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

Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Exodus 21:17

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

Proverbs 20:20

If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

Proverbs 23:22

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

Proverbs 30:17

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

Isaiah 8:20

To the teaching and to the testimony! Surely for this word which they speak there is no dawn.

Leviticus 19:3

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:9

For every one who curses his father or his mother shall be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his blood is upon him.

Matthew 15:3

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

Matthew 15:5

But you say, ‘If any one tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father.’

Matthew 19:19

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

Matthew 4:10

Then Jesus said to him, “Begone, Satan! for it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’ ”

Romans 3:31

Do we then overthrow the law by this 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.

Deuteronomy 27:16

“ ‘Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Deuteronomy 5:16

“ ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the Lord your God gives you.