Matthew 15:4

Matthew chapter 15 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

King James Version · 1611

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

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.

v.3And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?

v.4This passage

v.5But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given to God;

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.
Romans 3:31
Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
Deuteronomy 5:16
Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Matthew 5:17
Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.
Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Leviticus 19:3
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.