Genesis 9:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Anyone who sheds the blood of a human being, by a human being shall that one’s blood be shed; For in the image of God have human beings been made.

Cross References

Genesis 4:14

Look, you have now banished me from the ground. I must avoid you and be a constant wanderer on the earth. Anyone may kill me at sight.”

Genesis 42:22

Then Reuben responded, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do no wrong to the boy’? But you would not listen! Now comes the reckoning for his blood.”

Genesis 5:1

This is the record of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them in the likeness of God;

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more now, when wicked men have slain an innocent man in bed at home, must I require his blood from you and purge you from the land!”

1 Kings 2:9

But you must not let him go unpunished. You are wise; you will know what to do to send his gray head down to Sheol in blood.”

2 Kings 11:1

When Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she began to kill off the whole royal family.

2 Kings 11:16

So they seized her, and when she reached the Horse Gate of the king’s house, she was put to death.

2 Kings 11:20

All the people of the land rejoiced and the city was quiet, now that Athaliah had been slain with the sword at the king’s house.

2 Chronicles 33:24

His officials plotted against him and put him to death in his palace,

Psalm 51:4

Thoroughly wash away my guilt; and from my sin cleanse me.

Exodus 20:13

You shall not kill.

Proverbs 28:17

Though a person burdened with blood guilt is in flight even to the grave, let no one offer support.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build.

Leviticus 17:4

without first bringing it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord in front of the Lord’s tabernacle, shall be judged guilty of bloodshed —that individual has shed blood, and shall be cut off from the people.

Leviticus 24:17

Whoever takes the life of any human being shall be put to death;

Numbers 35:16

If someone strikes another with an iron instrument and causes death, that person is a murderer, and the murderer must be put to death.

Numbers 35:25

The community will deliver the homicide from the avenger of blood and the community will return the homicide to the city of asylum where the latter had fled; and the individual will stay there until the death of the high priest who has been anointed with sacred oil.

Numbers 35:33

You will not pollute the land where you live. For bloodshed pollutes the land, and the land can have no expiation for the blood shed on it except through the blood of the one who shed it.

Matthew 26:52

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its sheath, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

Romans 13:4

for it is a servant of God for your good. But if you do evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword without purpose; it is the servant of God to inflict wrath on the evildoer.

1 Corinthians 11:7

A man, on the other hand, should not cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.

Deuteronomy 19:11

However, if someone, hating a neighbor, lies in wait, attacks, and strikes the neighbor dead, and then flees to one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 5:17

You shall not kill.

James 3:9

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings who are made in the likeness of God.

Revelation 13:10

Anyone destined for captivity goes into captivity. Anyone destined to be slain by the sword shall be slain by the sword. Such is the faithful endurance of the holy ones. The Second Beast.

Judges 9:56

Thus did God repay the evil that Abimelech had done to his father in killing his seventy brothers.

1 Samuel 15:33

And Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” Then he cut Agag to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.