Genesis 9:6

New King James Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 4:14

Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me.”

Genesis 42:22

And Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Therefore behold, his blood is now required of us.”

Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that 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 person in his own house on his bed? Therefore, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and remove you from the earth?”

1 Kings 2:9

Now therefore, do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man and know what you ought to do to him; but bring his gray hair down to the grave with blood.”

2 Kings 11:1

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

2 Kings 11:16

So they seized her; and she went by way of the horses’ entrance into the king’s house, and there she was killed.

2 Kings 11:20

So all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet, for they had slain Athaliah with the sword in the king’s house.

2 Chronicles 33:24

Then his servants conspired against him, and killed him in his own house.

Psalm 51:4

Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight— That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge.

Exodus 20:13

“You shall not murder.

Proverbs 28:17

A man burdened with bloodshed will flee into a pit; Let no one help 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

and does not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of meeting to offer an offering to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, the guilt of bloodshed shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people,

Leviticus 24:17

‘Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

‘But if he strikes him with an iron implement, so that he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:25

So the congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall return him to the city of refuge where he had fled, and he shall remain there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

Numbers 35:33

So you shall not pollute the land where you are; 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 him who shed it.

Matthew 26:52

But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

Romans 13:4

For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.

1 Corinthians 11:7

For a man indeed 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 anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises against him and strikes him mortally, 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 God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.

Revelation 13:10

He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Judges 9:56

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father by 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 hacked Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.