Genesis 9:6

New English Translation

“Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.”

Cross References

Genesis 4:14

Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”

Genesis 42:22

Reuben said to them, “Didn’t I say to you, ‘Don’t sin against the boy,’ but you wouldn’t listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!”

Genesis 5:1

This is the record of the family line of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

2 Samuel 4:11

Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth?”

1 Kings 2:9

But now don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; make sure he has a bloody death.”

2 Kings 11:1

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line.

2 Kings 11:16

They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. There she was executed.

2 Kings 11:20

All the people of the land celebrated, for the city had rest now that they had killed Athaliah with the sword in the royal palace.

2 Chronicles 33:24

His servants conspired against him and killed him in his palace.

Psalm 51:4

Against you – you above all – I have sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. So you are just when you confront me; you are right when you condemn me.

Exodus 20:13

“You shall not murder.

Proverbs 28:17

The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support 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

but has not brought it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to present it as an offering to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord. He has shed blood, so that man will be cut off from the midst of his people.

Leviticus 24:17

“‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

“But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:25

The community must deliver the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the community must restore him to the town of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the consecrated oil.

Numbers 35:33

“You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

Matthew 26:52

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back in its place! For all who take hold of the sword will die by the sword.

Romans 13:4

for it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be in fear, for it does not bear the sword in vain. It is God’s servant to administer retribution on the wrongdoer.

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 the man.

Deuteronomy 19:11

However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.

Deuteronomy 5:17

You must not murder.

James 3:9

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people made in God’s image.

Revelation 13:10

If anyone is meant for captivity, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed by the sword, then by the sword he must be killed. This requires steadfast endurance and faith from the saints.

Judges 9:56

God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers.

1 Samuel 15:33

Samuel said, “Just as your sword left women childless, so your mother will be the most bereaved among women!” Then Samuel hacked Agag to pieces there in Gilgal before the Lord.