Genesis 9:6

New International Version

“Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.

Cross References

Genesis 4:14

Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

Genesis 42:22

Reuben replied, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you wouldn’t listen! Now we must give an accounting for his blood.”

Genesis 5:1

This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more—when wicked men have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed—should I not now demand his blood from your hand and rid the earth of you!”

1 Kings 2:9

But now, do not consider him innocent. You are a man of wisdom; you will know what to do to him. Bring his gray head down to the grave in blood.”

2 Kings 11:1

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family.

2 Kings 11:16

So they seized her as she reached the place where the horses enter the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.

2 Kings 11:20

All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was calm, because Athaliah had been slain with the sword at the palace.

2 Chronicles 33:24

Amon’s officials conspired against him and assassinated him in his palace.

Psalm 51:4

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.

Exodus 20:13

“You shall not murder.

Proverbs 28:17

Anyone tormented by the guilt of murder will seek refuge in the grave; let no one hold them back.

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

instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord in front of the tabernacle of the Lord—that person shall be considered guilty of bloodshed; they have shed blood and must be cut off from their people.

Leviticus 24:17

“ ‘Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

“ ‘If anyone strikes someone a fatal blow with an iron object, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.

Numbers 35:25

The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send the accused back to the city of refuge to which they fled. The accused must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

Numbers 35:33

“ ‘Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

Matthew 26:52

“Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

Romans 13:4

For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.

1 Corinthians 11:7

A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.

Deuteronomy 19:11

But if out of hate someone lies in wait, assaults and kills a neighbor, and then flees to one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 5:17

“You shall not murder.

James 3:9

With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness.

Revelation 13:10

“If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity they will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword they will be killed.” This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.

Judges 9:56

Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers.

1 Samuel 15:33

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