Genesis 9:6

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Whoever sheds the blood of a human being will have their blood shed by human beings. For God made human beings in his image.

Cross References

Genesis 4:14

“Look! You're driving me away right now—cursing the ground and banishing me from your presence. I'm going to have to hide and always be on the run, left to wander all over the earth. Anyone who finds me is going to kill me!”

Genesis 42:22

Reuben said to them, “Didn't I tell you, ‘Don't harm the boy!’ But you didn't listen to me. Now we're paying the price for what we did to him.”

Genesis 5:1

This is the record of Adam's descendants. When God created human beings, he made them to be like him.

2 Samuel 4:11

Even more so then, when evil men kill a good man in his own house, and in his own bed, shouldn't I demand you pay for his life with your own lives, and exterminate you!”

1 Kings 2:9

So don't leave him unpunished. You're a wise man and you know what you have to do to him—send him down into the grave with blood on his gray head.”

2 Kings 11:1

When Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she had all the rest of the royal family murdered.

2 Kings 11:16

They grabbed hold of her, took her to where the horses enter the palace grounds and they killed her there.

2 Kings 11:20

All throughout the land people celebrated, and Jerusalem was at peace, because Athaliah had been killed by the sword at the palace.

2 Chronicles 33:24

Then Amon's officials plotted against him and killed him in his palace.

Psalm 51:4

I have sinned against you, you alone. I have done evil in your sight. So you are right in what you say, and fair when you judge.

Exodus 20:13

You must not murder.

Proverbs 28:17

Someone guilty of murder will go on running away from it until they die. Don't try and stop them.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

A time of killing, and a time of healing. A time of tearing down, and a time of building up.

Leviticus 17:4

instead of bringing it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord there, that person shall be held guilty of illegal killing. They have shed blood and must be expelled from their people.

Leviticus 24:17

Anyone who kills someone else must be executed.

Numbers 35:16

But if anyone deliberately hits someone with something made of iron and kills them, that person is a murderer and must be executed.

Numbers 35:25

The court is to protect the killer from being attacked by the avenger and must return him to the sanctuary town that he ran to, and he must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with holy oil.

Numbers 35:33

Don't pollute the land where you live because bloodshed pollutes the land, and the land where blood is shed can't be purified except by the blood of the one who shed it.

Matthew 26:52

But Jesus told him, “Put your sword away. Everyone who fights with the sword will die by the sword.

Romans 13:4

Those in power are God's servants, put there for your own good. If you do wrong, you should be frightened—it's not without reason that authorities have the power to punish! They are God's servants, punishing offenders.

1 Corinthians 11:7

A man shouldn't cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God, while the woman is the glory of the man.

Deuteronomy 19:11

On the other hand, if a man hates someone, hides in wait, and attacks and kills them, and then the killer runs to one of the sanctuary towns,

Deuteronomy 5:17

You must not kill people.

James 3:9

We use the same tongue to bless our Lord and Father, as well as to curse people who are made in God's image—

Revelation 13:10

Anyone who has to go into captivity will go into captivity; anyone who has to die by the sword will die by the sword. This demonstrates the patient endurance and confidence in God of the believers.

Judges 9:56

This is how God paid back Abimelech's crime against his father of murdering his seventy brothers.

1 Samuel 15:33

But Samuel said, “In the same way that your sword has made women childless, so too your mother will be childless among women.” Samuel cut Agag to pieces before the Lord at Gilgal.