Mark 7:10
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For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
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FOUR THOUSAND MIRACULOUSLY FED--A SIGN FROM HEAVEN SOUGHT AND REFUSED--THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES--A BLIND MAN AT BETHSAIDA RESTORED TO SIGHT. ( = Mat. 15:32-16:12). (Mark 8:1-26) In those days the multitude being very great, &c.
Open source ↗In this chapter we have, I. Christ's dispute with the scribes and Pharisees about eating meat with unwashen hands (Mar 7:1-13); and the needful instructions he gave to the people on that occasion, and further explained to his disciples (Mar 7:14-23). II. His curing of the woman Canaan's daughter that was possessed (Mar 7:24-30). III. The relief of a man that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech (Mar 7:31-37).
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Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.
For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”
As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.