Matthew 15:4

For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'He who speaks evil of his father or mother, will surely die.'

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In The King James Version

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

In Context

3He answered and said to them, “Then why do you violate the commandment of God for the sake of your traditions?

5But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or mother “Whatever help you would have received from me is now a gift given to God,”'

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Cross References

Exodus 20:12Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you.

Leviticus 19:3Everyone must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 5:16Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God has commanded you to do, that you may live a long time in the land that Yahweh your God gives you, and so that it may go well with you.

Deuteronomy 27:16'May the man be cursed who dishonors his father or his mother.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'

Proverbs 23:22Listen to your father who begot you 1 and do not despise your mother when she is old. 1

Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not say such things, it is because they have no light of dawn. 1

Matthew Henry on Matthew 15:2-10

Jesus Reproves the Scribes and Pharisees. 1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, 2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. 3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? 4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. 5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his… Read the whole commentary →

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