Capital Punishment
10 passages
- Exodus 21:12
Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.
Read it in context - Leviticus 24:17
And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
Read it in context - Acts 25:11
If, however, I am guilty of anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is no truth to their accusations against me, no one has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
Read it in context - Genesis 9:5–6
5And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man: 6Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
Read it in context - Exodus 20:13
You shall not murder.
Read it in context - Numbers 35:30–31
30If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness. 31You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.
Read it in context - Leviticus 20:10
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
Read it in context - Exodus 21:16
Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.
Read it in context - Ecclesiastes 8:11
When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
Read it in context - Leviticus 20:13
If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
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