Bible Verses about “euthanasia”
The Bible contains 16 verses about euthanasia 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.”
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].”
“¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
“¶ To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
“Thou shalt not kill.”
“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.”
“And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;”
“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:”
“A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up [that which is] planted;”
“And patience, experience; and experience, hope:”
“A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;”
“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”
“Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.”
“Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?”
“[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.”