Matthew 15:4

Modern English Version

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

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 is giving you.

Exodus 21:17

He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Proverbs 20:20

He who vilifies his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in deep darkness.

Proverbs 23:22

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

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley will pluck it out, and the young vultures will eat it.

Isaiah 8:20

To the law and to the testimony; if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Leviticus 19:3

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

Leviticus 20:9

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, and his blood guilt shall be upon him.

Matthew 15:3

But He answered them, “Why do you also violate the commandment of God by your tradition?

Matthew 15:5

But you say, ‘Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, “What you would have profited from me is a gift to God,”

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 away from here, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.’ ”

Romans 3:31

Do we then make the law void through faith? God forbid! Instead, we establish the law.

Ephesians 6:1

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

Deuteronomy 27:16

“Cursed is he who disrespects his father or his mother.” And all the people shall say, “Amen.”

Deuteronomy 5:16

Honor your father and your mother, just as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.