Genesis 9:6

New American Standard Bible 2020

“Whoever sheds human blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made mankind.

Cross References

Genesis 4:14

Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and I will be hidden from Your face, and I will be a wanderer and a drifter on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

Genesis 42:22

Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Now justice for his blood is required.”

Genesis 5:1

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

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and eliminate you both from the earth?”

1 Kings 2:9

But now do not leave him unpunished, for you are a wise man; and you will know what to do to him, and you will bring his gray hair down to Sheol with blood.”

2 Kings 11:1

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and eliminated all the royal children.

2 Kings 11:16

So they seized her, and when they brought her to the horses’ entrance of the king’s house, she was put to death there.

2 Kings 11:20

So all the people of the land rejoiced and the city was peaceful. For they had put Athaliah to death with the sword at the king’s house.

2 Chronicles 33:24

Finally, his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his own house.

Psalm 51:4

Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge.

Exodus 20:13

“You shall not murder.

Proverbs 28:17

A person who is burdened with the guilt of human blood Will be a fugitive until death; no one is to support him!

Ecclesiastes 3:3

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

Leviticus 17:4

and has not brought it to the doorway of the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord in front of the tabernacle of the Lord, bloodshed is to be counted against that person. He has shed blood, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.

Leviticus 24:17

‘Now if someone takes any human life, he must be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

‘But if he struck him with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.

Numbers 35:25

And the congregation shall save the one who committed manslaughter from the hand of the blood avenger, and the congregation shall return him to his city of refuge to which he fled; and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

Numbers 35:33

So you shall not defile the land in which you live; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

Matthew 26:52

Then Jesus *said to him, “Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword will perish by the sword.

Romans 13:4

for it is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a servant of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.

1 Corinthians 11:7

For a man should not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.

Deuteronomy 19:11

“But if there is a person who hates his neighbor, and waits in ambush for him and rises up against him and strikes him so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 5:17

‘You shall not murder.

James 3:9

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people, who have been made in the likeness of God;

Revelation 13:10

If anyone is destined for captivity, to captivity he goes; if anyone kills with the sword, with the sword he must be killed. Here is the perseverance and the faith of the saints.

Judges 9:56

So God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father in killing his seventy brothers.

1 Samuel 15:33

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