Genesis 9:6

Revised Standard Version

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.

Cross References

Genesis 4:14

Behold, thou hast driven me this day away from the ground; and from thy face I shall be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will slay me.”

Genesis 42:22

And Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to sin against the lad? But you would not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.”

Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

2 Samuel 4:11

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

1 Kings 2:9

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

2 Kings 11:1

Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family.

2 Kings 11:16

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

2 Kings 11:20

So all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been slain with the sword at the king's house.

2 Chronicles 33:24

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

Psalm 51:4

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, so that thou art justified in thy sentence and blameless in thy judgment.

Exodus 20:13

“You shall not kill.

Proverbs 28:17

If a man is burdened with the blood of another, let him be a fugitive until death; 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 tent of meeting, to offer it as a gift to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, bloodguilt shall be imputed to that man; he has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

Leviticus 24:17

He who kills a man shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

“But if he struck him down with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:25

and the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

Numbers 35:33

You shall not thus 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 him 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 perish by the sword.

Romans 13:4

for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer.

1 Corinthians 11:7

For 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 any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and attacks him, and wounds him mortally so that he dies, and the man flees into one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 5:17

“ ‘You shall not kill.

James 3:9

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

Revelation 13:10

If any one is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if any one slays with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.

Judges 9:56

Thus God requited the crime of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers;

1 Samuel 15:33

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