Matthew 15:4 - Tree of Life Version

⁴ For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother must 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

Exodus 20:12

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

Exodus 21:17

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

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be snuffed out in utter darkness.

Proverbs 23:22

Listen 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 obeying a mother— will be pecked out by ravens of the valley and eaten by young vultures!

Isaiah 8:20

To Torah and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no light.

Leviticus 19:3

“Each one of you is to respect his mother and his father, and keep My Shabbatot. I am Adonai your God.

Leviticus 20:9

“Any man who curses his father or his mother should surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother, and his blood should be on him.

Matthew 15:3

And answering, He said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

Matthew 15:5

But you say, ‘Whoever tells his father or mother, “Whatever you might have gained from me is a gift to God,”

Matthew 19:19

honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Matthew 4:10

Then Yeshua says to him, “Go away, satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship Adonai your God, and Him only shall you serve.’”

Romans 3:31

Do we then nullify the Torah through faithfulness? May it never be! On the contrary, we uphold the Torah.

Ephesians 6:1

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

Deuteronomy 27:16

‘Cursed is the one who dishonors his father or mother.’ Then all the people are to say, ‘Amen.’

Deuteronomy 5:16

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