Exodus 21:14 But if a man come
presumptuously upon his neighbour, to
slay him with guile; thou shalt
take him from mine altar, that he may die.
Exodus 21:20 And if a man
smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand;
he shall be surely
punished.
Exodus 21:29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and
his owner also shall be put to death.
Genesis 4:8-
23 And Cain
talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that
Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. ... And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man
to my hurt.
Genesis 9:5-
6 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of
every beast will I require it,
and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's
brother will I require the life of man. ... Whoso sheddeth man's blood,
by man shall his blood be shed: for
in the image of God made he man.
Leviticus 24:21 And he that killeth
a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth
a man, he shall be put to death.
Numbers 35:16-
34 And
if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he [
is] a murderer:
the murderer shall surely be put to death. ...
Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein
I dwell: for I the LORD
dwell among the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 5:17 Thou shalt not kill.
Deuteronomy 19:11-
13 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him
mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: ...
Thine eye shall not pity him,
but thou shalt put away [
the guilt of] innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
2 Samuel 12:9-
10 Wherefore hast thou
despised the commandment of the LORD,
to do evil in his sight?
thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife [
to be] thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. ... Now therefore
the sword shall never depart from thine house;
because thou hast despised me, and
hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
2 Kings 21:16 Moreover
Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from
one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing [
that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 24:22 Thus Joash the king
remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him,
but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon [
it],
and require [it].
Psalms 10:8-
11 He
sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent:
his eyes are privily set against the poor. ... He hath
said in his heart,
God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see [
it].
Proverbs 1:11 If they say, Come with us,
let us lay wait for blood,
let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Proverbs 1:18 And they lay wait for their [
own] blood; they lurk privily for their [
own] lives.
Isaiah 26:21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth
also shall disclose her
blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Jeremiah 26:15 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death,
ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof:
for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
Matthew 5:21-
22 Ye have heard that
it was said
by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill;
and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: ... But
I say unto you,
That whosoever is angry with
his brother without a cause shall
be in danger of
the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother,
Raca, shall be in danger of
the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou
fool, shall be in danger of
hell fire.
Acts 28:4 And when the
barbarians saw the [
venomous]
beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves,
No doubt this man is
a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Romans 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not
covet; and if [
there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself.
Galatians 5:21 Envyings, murders,
drunkenness,
revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [
you] in time past,
that they which do such things shall not
inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that
the law is not made for a righteous man, but for
the lawless and
disobedient, for
the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and
profane, for
murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for
manslayers,
James 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill.
Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
James 2:13 For
he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy;
and mercy
rejoiceth against judgment.
1 John 3:12-
15 Not
as Cain, [
who] was
of that wicked one, and slew his brother.
And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil,
and his brother's righteous. ... Whosoever
hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer
hath eternal life abiding in him.
