Honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
Matthew 15:4 - New International Version (Anglicised) For God said, “Honour your father and mother” and “Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 '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 Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death. |
Honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
If someone curses their father or mother, their lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness.
Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
‘The eye that mocks a father, that scorns an aged mother, will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley, will be eaten by the vultures.
Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
‘ “Each of you must respect your mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
‘ “Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head.
Jesus replied, ‘And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is “devoted to God,”
honour your father and mother,” and “love your neighbour as yourself.”’
Jesus said to him, ‘Away from me, Satan! For it is written: “Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.”’
Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.
‘Cursed is anyone who dishonours their father or mother.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’
Honour your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving you.