Commandments for Holiness
Leviticus 19:3
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
- KJV
- ¶ Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
- WEB
- “‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
- ASV
- Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.
- LSV
- You each fear his mother and his father, and you keep My Sabbaths; I [am] your God YHWH.
- YLT
- 'Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I [am] Jehovah your God.
- DBY
- Ye shall reverence every man his mother, and his father, and my sabbaths shall ye keep: I am Jehovah your God.Elohim
- DRC
- Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
- GNV
- Yee shall feare euery man his mother and his father, and shall keepe my Sabbaths: for I am the Lord your God.
- JPS
- Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and ye shall keep My sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
- LXXE
- Let every one of you reverence his father and his mother; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אִ֣ישׁ אִמּ֤וֹ וְאָבִיו֙ תִּירָ֔אוּ וְאֶת־שַׁבְּתֹתַ֖י תִּשְׁמֹ֑רוּ אֲנִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἕκαστος πατέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ μητέρα αὐτοῦ φοβείσθω, καὶ τὰ σάββατά μου φυλάξεσθε· ἐγὼ Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ὑμῶν.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Exodus 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Ephesians 6:1–3Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
- Exodus 20:8Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
- Hebrews 12:9Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?
- Proverbs 30:17As 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.
- Ezekiel 22:7–8Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed. You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
- Exodus 21:15Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.
- Leviticus 11:44For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.
- Exodus 21:17Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.
- Proverbs 23:22Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
- Matthew 15:4–6For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a…
- Isaiah 58:13If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your…
- Deuteronomy 21:18–21If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined, his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to…
- Exodus 16:29Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.”
- Deuteronomy 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Exodus 31:13–17“Tell the Israelites, ‘Surely you must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. Keep the Sabbath, for it is…
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