Genesis 9:6

Good News Translation

Human beings were made like God, so whoever murders one of them will be killed by someone else.

Cross References

Genesis 4:14

You are driving me off the land and away from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me.”

Genesis 42:22

Reuben said, “I told you not to harm the boy, but you wouldn't listen. And now we are being paid back for his death.”

Genesis 5:1

This is the list of the descendants of Adam. (When God created human beings, he made them like himself.

2 Samuel 4:11

How much worse it will be for evil men who murder an innocent man asleep in his own house! I will now take revenge on you for murdering him and will wipe you off the face of the earth!”

1 Kings 2:9

But you must not let him go unpunished. You know what to do, and you must see to it that he is put to death.”

2 Kings 11:1

As soon as King Ahaziah's mother Athaliah learned of her son's murder, she gave orders for all the members of the royal family to be killed.

2 Kings 11:16

They seized her, took her to the palace, and there at the Horse Gate they killed her.

2 Kings 11:20

All the people were filled with happiness, and the city was quiet, now that Athaliah had been killed in the palace.

2 Chronicles 33:24

Amon's officials plotted against him and assassinated him in the palace.

Psalm 51:4

I have sinned against you—only against you— and done what you consider evil. So you are right in judging me; you are justified in condemning me.

Exodus 20:13

“Do not commit murder.

Proverbs 28:17

Someone guilty of murder is digging his own grave as fast as he can. Don't try to stop him.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

the time for killing and the time for healing, the time for tearing down and the time for building.

Leviticus 24:17

“Any who commit murder shall be put to death,

Numbers 35:16

“If, however, any of you use a weapon of iron or stone or wood to kill someone, you are guilty of murder and are to be put to death.

Numbers 35:25

You are guilty only of manslaughter, and the community is to rescue you from the dead person's relative, and they are to return you to the city of refuge to which you had escaped. You must live there until the death of the man who is then High Priest.

Numbers 35:33

If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered.

Matthew 26:52

“Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him. “All who take the sword will die by the sword.

Romans 13:4

because they are God's servants working for your own good. But if you do evil, then be afraid of them, because their power to punish is real. They are God's servants and carry out God's punishment on those who do evil.

1 Corinthians 11:7

A man has no need to cover his head, because he reflects the image and glory of God. But woman reflects the glory of man;

Deuteronomy 19:11

“But suppose you deliberately murder your enemy in cold blood and then escape to one of those cities for protection.

Deuteronomy 5:17

“‘Do not commit murder.

James 3:9

We use it to give thanks to our Lord and Father and also to curse other people, who are created in the likeness of God.

Revelation 13:10

Whoever is meant to be captured will surely be captured; whoever is meant to be killed by the sword will surely be killed by the sword. This calls for endurance and faith on the part of God's people.”

Judges 9:56

And so it was that God paid Abimelech back for the crime that he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.

1 Samuel 15:33

Samuel said, “As your sword has made many mothers childless, so now your mother will become childless.” And he cut Agag to pieces in front of the altar in Gilgal.