Matthew 15:4
Good News Translation
For God said, 'Respect your father and your mother,' and 'If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death.'

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

Contemporary English Version
Didn't God command you to respect your father and mother? Didn't he tell you to put to death all who curse their parents?

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death.

God.

Matthew 4:10 Then Jesus saith to him: Begone, Satan: for it is written: The Lord thy God shalt thou adore, and him only shalt thou serve.

Matthew 5:17-19 Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. . . .

Isaiah 8:20 To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light.

Romans 3:31 Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we establish the law.

Honour.

Matthew 19:19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Leviticus 19:3 Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 5:16 Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it may be well with thee in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Proverbs 23:22 Hearken to thy father, that begot thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is just.

He.

Exodus 21:17 He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.

Leviticus 20:9 He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die. He hath cursed his father, and mother: let his blood be upon him.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience: . . .

Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Proverbs 20:20 He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.

Proverbs 30:17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.

Context
Tradition and Worship
3But he answering, said to them: Why do you also transgress the commandment of God for your tradition? For God said: 4Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death. 5But you say: Whosoever shall say to father or mother, The gift whatsoever proceedeth from me, shall profit thee.…
Cross References
Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Exodus 21:17
He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.

Leviticus 20:9
He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die. He hath cursed his father, and mother: let his blood be upon him.

Deuteronomy 5:16
Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it may be well with thee in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Proverbs 20:20
He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.

Matthew 15:3
But he answering, said to them: Why do you also transgress the commandment of God for your tradition? For God said:

Matthew 15:5
But you say: Whosoever shall say to father or mother, The gift whatsoever proceedeth from me, shall profit thee.

Matthew 15:3
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