Taking a Life
9 passages
- Exodus 21:12
Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.
Read it in context - Exodus 20:13
You shall not murder.
Read it in context - Proverbs 24:11
Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.
Read it in context - Genesis 9:6
Whoever 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 - 1 Peter 2:16
Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
Read it in context - Genesis 4:9–11
9And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” 10“What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground. 11Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
Read it in context - Jeremiah 1:5
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Read it in context - 1 Samuel 2:6
The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
Read it in context - Hebrews 9:27
Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
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