Genesis 9:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed, for in his own image God made humans.

Cross References

Genesis 4:14

Today you have driven me away from the soil, and I shall be hidden from your face; I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and anyone who meets me may kill me.”

Genesis 42:22

Then Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to wrong the boy? But you would not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.”

Genesis 5:1

This is the list of the descendants of Adam. When God created humans, he made them in the likeness of God.

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more, then, when wicked men have killed a righteous man on his bed in his own house! And now shall I not require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”

1 Kings 2:9

Therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; you will know what you ought to do to him, and you must bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol.”

2 Kings 11:1

Now when Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she set about to destroy all the royal family.

2 Kings 11:16

So they laid hands on her; she went through the horses’ entrance to the king’s house, and there she was put to death.

2 Kings 11:20

So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been killed with the sword at the king’s house.

2 Chronicles 33:24

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

Psalm 51:4

Against you, you alone, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment.

Exodus 20:13

“You shall not murder.

Proverbs 28:17

If someone is burdened with the blood of another, let that killer be a fugitive until death; let no one offer assistance.

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 entrance of the tent of meeting, to present it as an offering to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, he shall be held guilty of bloodshed; he has shed blood, and he shall be cut off from the people.

Leviticus 24:17

Anyone who kills a human being shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

“But anyone who strikes another with an iron object, and death ensues, is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:25

and the congregation shall rescue the slayer from the avenger of blood. Then the congregation shall send the slayer back to the original city of refuge. The slayer shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

Numbers 35:33

You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in 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 who take the sword will die by the sword.

Romans 13:4

for it is God’s agent for your good. But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for the authority does not bear the sword in vain! It is the agent of God to execute wrath on the wrongdoer.

1 Corinthians 11:7

For a man ought not to have his head veiled, since he is the image and reflection of God, but woman is the reflection of man.

Deuteronomy 19:11

“But if someone at enmity with another lies in wait and attacks and takes the life of that person and flees into one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 5:17

“ ‘You shall not murder.

James 3:9

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people, made in the likeness of God.

Revelation 13:10

If you are to be taken captive, into captivity you go; if you kill with the sword, with the sword you must be killed. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.

Judges 9:56

Thus God repaid Abimelech for the crime he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers;

1 Samuel 15:33

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