Genesis 9:6

New Century Version

“Whoever kills a human being will be killed by a human being, because God made humans in his own image.

Cross References

Genesis 4:14

Today you have forced me to stop working the ground, and now I must hide from you. I must wander around on the earth, and anyone who meets me can kill me.”

Genesis 42:22

Then Reuben said to them, “I told you not to harm the boy, but you refused to listen to me. So now we are being punished for what we did to him.”

Genesis 5:1

This is the family history of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them in his own likeness.

2 Samuel 4:11

So even more I must put you evil men to death because you have killed an innocent man on his own bed in his own house!”

1 Kings 2:9

But you should not leave him unpunished. You are a wise man, and you will know what to do to him, but you must be sure he is killed.”

2 Kings 11:1

When Ahaziah’s mother, Athaliah, saw that her son was dead, she killed all the royal family.

2 Kings 11:16

So they caught her when she came to the horses’ entrance near the palace. There she was put to death.

2 Kings 11:20

So all the people of the land were very happy, and Jerusalem had peace, because Athaliah had been put to death with the sword at the palace.

2 Chronicles 33:24

King Amon’s officers made plans against him and killed him in his palace.

Psalm 51:4

You are the only one I have sinned against; I have done what you say is wrong. You are right when you speak and fair when you judge.

Exodus 20:13

“You must not murder anyone.

Proverbs 28:17

Don’t help those who are guilty of murder; let them run until they die.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

There is a time to kill and a time to heal. There is a time to destroy and a time to build.

Leviticus 17:4

when he should have brought the animal to the entrance of the Meeting Tent as a gift to the Lord in front of the Lord’s Holy Tent, he is guilty of killing. He has killed, and he must be cut off from the people.

Leviticus 24:17

“ ‘Whoever kills another person must be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

“ ‘Anyone who uses an iron weapon to kill someone is a murderer. He must be put to death.

Numbers 35:25

They must protect the killer from the dead person’s relative, sending the killer back to the original city of safety, to stay there until the high priest dies (the high priest had the holy oil poured on him).

Numbers 35:33

“ ‘Don’t let murder spoil your land. The only way to remove the sin of killing an innocent person is for the murderer to be put to death.

Matthew 26:52

Jesus said to the man, “Put your sword back in its place. All who use swords will be killed with swords.

Romans 13:4

The ruler is God’s servant to help you. But if you do wrong, then be afraid. He has the power to punish; he is God’s servant to punish those who do wrong.

1 Corinthians 11:7

But a man should not cover his head, because he is the likeness and glory of God. But woman is man’s glory.

Deuteronomy 19:11

But if a person hates his neighbor and, after hiding and waiting, attacks and kills him and then runs to one of these cities for safety,

Deuteronomy 5:17

“You must not murder anyone.

James 3:9

We use our tongues to praise our Lord and Father, but then we curse people, whom God made like himself.

Revelation 13:10

If you are to be a prisoner, then you will be a prisoner. If you are to be killed with the sword, then you will be killed with the sword. This means that God’s holy people must have patience and faith.

Judges 9:56

In that way God punished Abimelech for all the evil he had done to his father by killing his seventy brothers.

1 Samuel 15:33

Samuel said to him, “Your sword made other mothers lose their children. Now your mother will have no children.” And Samuel cut Agag to pieces before the Lord at Gilgal.