Parallel Verses

Amplified

For God said [through Moses], Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of or insults or treats improperly father or mother is to be put to death.’

New American Standard Bible

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother is to be put to death.’

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

For God said:

Honor your father and your mother; and,
The one who speaks evil of father or mother
must be put to death.

International Standard Version

Because God said, "You are to honor your father and your mother,' and, "Whoever curses father or mother must certainly be put to death.'

A Conservative Version

For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death.

American Standard Version

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

An Understandable Version

For God said, [Ex. 20:12], 'Give honor to your father and mother.' and [Ex. 21:17], 'Whoever says bad things about his father or mother should surely be put to death.'

Anderson New Testament

For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and your mother; and, He that curses father or mother shall surely be put to death.

Bible in Basic English

For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

Common New Testament

For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.'

Daniel Mace New Testament

for this is a commandment of God, "honour thy father and mother; and, he that curses father or mother, let him be punish'd with death."

Darby Translation

For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.

Godbey New Testament

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

Goodspeed New Testament

For God said, 'Honor your father and mother,' and 'He who abuses his father or mother must be put to death.'

John Wesley New Testament

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

Julia Smith Translation

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, he calumniating father or mother, in death let him die.

King James 2000

For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die the death.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'The one who speaks evil of father or mother {must certainly die}.'

Modern King James verseion

For God commanded, saying, "Honor your father and mother"; and, "He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him die by death."

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For God commanded, saying, 'Honour thy father and mother,' and, 'He that curseth father or mother, shall suffer death.'

Moffatt New Testament

God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death.

Montgomery New Testament

"For God said, Honor your father and mother, and, Let him who reviles father or mother be put to death;

NET Bible

For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.'

New Heart English Bible

For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

Noyes New Testament

For God commanded, saying, "Honor thy father and thy mother;" and, "He that curseth father or mother, let him surely die."

Sawyer New Testament

For God said, Honor your father and mother; and he that reviles father or mother, let him surely die.

The Emphasized Bible

For, God, said - Honour thy father and thy mother, and - He that revileth father or mother, let him, surely die!

Thomas Haweis New Testament

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

Twentieth Century New Testament

For God said--'Honor thy father and mother,' and 'Let him who reviles his father or mother suffer death,'

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

For God said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother'; and 'Let him who reviles father or mother be certainly put to death';

Williams New Testament

For God said, 'Honor your father and mother,' and 'Whoever curses his father or mother must certainly be put to death.'

World English Bible

For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

Worrell New Testament

For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'He that speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die,'

Worsley New Testament

For God commanded saying, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He that revileth father or mother, let him be put to death:

Youngs Literal Translation

for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

ἐντέλλομαι 
Entellomai 
Usage: 10

λέγω 
Lego 
Usage: 1045

τιμάω 
Timao 
Usage: 7

thy
σοῦ 
Sou 
thy, thee, thine, thine own, thou, not tr
Usage: 241

πατήρ 
Pater 
πατήρ 
Pater 
Usage: 180
Usage: 180

and



and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

μήτηρ 
meter 
μήτηρ 
meter 
Usage: 55
Usage: 55

κακολογέω 
Kakologeo 
Usage: 1

or
ἤ 
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
Usage: 199

τελευτάω 
Teleutao 
Usage: 7

Context Readings

Human Traditions And God's Commandments

3 He replied to them, “Why also do you violate the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition [handed down by the elders]? 4 For God said [through Moses], Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of or insults or treats improperly father or mother is to be put to death.’ 5 But you say, ‘If anyone says to his father or mother, “Whatever [money or resource that] I have that would help you is [already dedicated and] given to God,”


Cross References

Exodus 20:12

“Honor (respect, obey, care for) your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged in the land the Lord your God gives you.

Exodus 21:17

“Whoever curses his father or his mother or treats them contemptuously must be put to death.

Deuteronomy 5:16

‘Honor (respect, obey, care for) your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that your days [on the earth] may be prolonged and so that it may go well with you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Leviticus 20:9

‘If anyone curses his father or mother, he shall most certainly be put to death; he has cursed his father or mother; his blood is on him [that is, he bears full responsibility for the consequences].

Matthew 19:19

Honor your father and mother; and love your neighbor as yourself [that is, unselfishly seek the best or higher good for others].

Leviticus 19:3

Each of you shall respect his mother and his father, and you shall keep My Sabbaths; I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

“If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or of his mother, and when they reprimand and discipline him, he will not listen to them,

Deuteronomy 27:16

‘Cursed is he who dishonors (treats with contempt) his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Proverbs 20:20


Whoever curses his father or his mother,
His lamp [of life] will be extinguished in time of darkness.

Proverbs 23:22


Listen to your father, who sired you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 30:17


The eye that mocks a father
And scorns a mother,
The ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young vultures will devour it.

Isaiah 8:20

[Direct those people] to the law and to the testimony! If their teachings are not in accord with this word, it is because they have no dawn.

Matthew 4:10

Then Jesus said to him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written and forever remains written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.’”

Matthew 5:17-19

“Do not think that I came to do away with or undo the Law [of Moses] or the [writings of the] Prophets; I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.

Romans 3:31

Do we then nullify the Law by this faith [making the Law of no effect, overthrowing it]? Certainly not! On the contrary, we confirm and establish and uphold the Law [since it convicts us all of sin, pointing to the need for salvation].

Ephesians 6:1

Children, obey your parents in the Lord [that is, accept their guidance and discipline as His representatives], for this is right [for obedience teaches wisdom and self-discipline].

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