Genesis 9:6

Modern English Version

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in His own image.

Cross References

Genesis 4:14

Behold, you have driven me out this day from the face of the earth, and from Your face will I be hidden; and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me.”

Genesis 42:22

Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Therefore, his blood is now required of us.”

Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more so, when guilty men have slain an innocent man in his own house on his own bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand and wipe you from the earth?”

1 Kings 2:9

Now therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man and know what you ought to do to him. Bring his gray head down to the grave with blood.”

2 Kings 11:1

Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose up and destroyed all the royal descendants.

2 Kings 11:16

So they laid hands on her, and she came through the horses’ entrance into the king’s house. Then she was put to death there.

2 Kings 11:20

All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had killed Athaliah with the sword at the king’s house.

2 Chronicles 33:24

And his servants plotted against him, and they killed him in his palace.

Psalm 51:4

Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You are justified when you speak, and blameless when You pass judgment.

Exodus 20:13

You shall not murder.

Proverbs 28:17

If a man is burdened with the blood of another, he will be a fugitive until death; let no one help him.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

Leviticus 17:4

and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it as a gift to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, then blood guilt shall be accounted to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

Leviticus 24:17

Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

If he strikes him with an instrument of iron, so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:25

And the assembly will deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the assembly will restore him to the city of his refuge where he fled, and he will dwell in it until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

Numbers 35:33

So you will not defile the land which you are in, because blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of him that shed it.

Matthew 26:52

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back in its place. For all those who take up the sword will perish by the sword.

Romans 13:4

for he is the servant of God for your good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain, for he is the servant of God, an avenger to execute wrath upon him who practices evil.

1 Corinthians 11:7

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

Deuteronomy 19:11

But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and mortally strikes him, causing him to die, and flees to one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 5:17

You shall not murder.

James 3:9

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.

Revelation 13:10

“He who is to be taken captive, into captivity he shall go; he who kills with the sword, with the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the patience and the faith of the saints.

Judges 9:56

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he committed against his father by killing his seventy brothers.

1 Samuel 15:33

Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.