Matthew 15:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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.

Exodus 21:17

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

Proverbs 20:20

If you curse father or mother, your lamp will go 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 to obey a mother will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Isaiah 8:20

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

Leviticus 19:3

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

Leviticus 20:9

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

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.

Matthew 19:19

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

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.’ ”

Romans 3:31

Do we then overthrow the law through 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 anyone who dishonors father or mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

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.