Matthew 15:4

New American Bible - revised edition

For God said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘Whoever curses father or mother shall die.’

Cross References

Exodus 20:12

Honor your father and your mother, that you may have a long life in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Exodus 21:17

Whoever curses father or mother shall be put to death.

Proverbs 20:20

Those who curse father or mother— their lamp will go out in the dead of night.

Proverbs 23:22

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

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father, or scorns the homage due a mother, Will be plucked out by brook ravens; devoured by a brood of vultures.

Isaiah 8:20

for instruction and testimony?” Surely, those who speak like this are the ones for whom there is no dawn.

Leviticus 19:3

Each of you revere your mother and father, and keep my sabbaths. I, the Lord, am your God.

Leviticus 20:9

Anyone who curses father or mother shall be put to death; and having cursed father or mother, such a one will bear the bloodguilt.

Matthew 15:3

He said to them in reply, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

Matthew 15:5

But you say, ‘Whoever says to father or mother, “Any support you might have had from me is dedicated to God,”

Matthew 19:19

honor your father and your mother’; and ‘you shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Matthew 4:10

At this, Jesus said to him, “Get away, Satan! It is written: ‘The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.’”

Romans 3:31

Are we then annulling the law by this faith? Of course not! On the contrary, we are supporting the law.

Ephesians 6:1

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

Deuteronomy 27:16

“Cursed be anyone who dishonors father or mother!” And all the people shall answer, “Amen!”

Deuteronomy 5:16

Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord, your God, has commanded you, that you may have a long life and that you may prosper in the land the Lord your God is giving you.