Bible Verses about “taking a life”

“But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."”

“There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:”

“haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;”

“For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."”

“"You shall not murder.”

“But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, 'Raca!' shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.”

“But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."”

“"You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.'”

“Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.”

“"'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.”

“He said to him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, "'You shall not murder.' 'You shall not commit adultery.' 'You shall not steal.' 'You shall not offer false testimony.'”

“Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.”

“Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!”

“"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,”

“You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.'"”

“"'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.”

“"'Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.”

“"You shall not murder.”

“"'Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.”

“but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.”

“If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.”

“But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;”

“then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.”

“Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.”

“"'But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,”

“or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;”

“then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;”

“and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.”

“For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.”

“"'But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.”

“If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.”

“Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.”

“The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.”

“If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,”

“or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.”

“"'But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,”

“and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,”

“because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.”

“"'These things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.”

“"'You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.”

“then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.”

“The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.”

“The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.”

“You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.”