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4:For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.' 5:But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,' 6:he is not to 'honor his father 'with it.
In the Talmud, the commandment to honour one's human parents is compared to honoring God. [11] [12] According to the prophet Malachi, God makes the analogy himself: "A son honours his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, where is the honour due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?" says the LORD Almighty.
The Jewish Study Bible, Tanakh Translation. 2004. Berlin, Adele; Brettler, Marc Zvi; Fishbane, Michael, eds. Jewish Publication Society, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-529751-2; Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible (accessed 2 September 2009) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. 2007. Crossway Bibles, Wheaton ...
The Lord's Prayer is appended by two verses on forgiveness. [1] Allison notes a similar sequence in Mark 11:23–25 and Luke 17:3–6 and proposes a traditional connection between prayer and forgiveness, where prayer is efficacious when members of the community are reconciled to each other.
Matthew 5:44, the forty-fourth verse in the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament, also found in Luke 6:27–36, [1] is part of the Sermon on the Mount. This is the second verse of the final antithesis, that on the commandment to "Love thy neighbour as thyself". In the chapter, Jesus refutes the teaching of some that one ...
Clarke notes how important and revolutionary this elevation of meekness was in the Mediterranean societies of the time that placed enormous stock in honor and status. [6] Strong's entry for the Greek word praus lists it as "mild, gentle". [7] This verse has been much praised, even by some non-Christians such as Mahatma Gandhi. Some have seen it ...
The first Bible in English to use both chapters and verses was the Geneva Bible published shortly afterwards by Sir Rowland Hill [21] in 1560. These verse divisions soon gained acceptance as a standard way to notate verses, and have since been used in nearly all English Bibles and the vast majority of those in other languages.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. The New International Version translates the passage as: a man's enemies will be the members of his own household. The Vulgate version is: et inimici hominis domestici eius.