Bible Verses about “assisted suicide”
The Bible contains 20 verses about assisted suicide across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
“¶ To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
“Thou shalt not kill.”
“[The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.”
“And he said unto me, ‹My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.› Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
“Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.”
“He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.”
“A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up [that which is] planted;”
“A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;”
“Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.”
“Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?”
“And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”
“¶ Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,”
“Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.”
“[There is] no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither [hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.”
“Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.”
“For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?”
“And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.”