Bible Cross References
Thou shalt not kill.
Exodus 21:14
And if anyone lie in wait for his neighbor to slay him by craft, and he go for refuge, you shall take him from My altar to put him to death.
Exodus 21:20
And if a man beats his manservant or his maidservant with a rod, and [the party] dies under his hands, he shall be surely punished.
Exodus 21:29
But if the bull was inclined to goring in the past, and men have told his owner, and he has not removed him, so that it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also.
Genesis 4:8-23
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And Cain said to Abel his brother, Let us go out into the plain. And it came to pass, that when they were in the plain, Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and killed him.
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And the Lord God said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I do not know- am I my brother's keeper?
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And the Lord said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries [out] to Me from the ground.
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And now you [are] cursed from the earth which has opened her mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
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When you till the earth, then it shall not continue to give its strength to you: you shall be groaning and trembling on the earth.
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And Cain said to the Lord God, My crime is too great for me to be forgiven.
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If You cast me out this day from the face of the earth, and I shall be hidden from Your presence, and I shall be groaning and trembling upon the earth, then it will be that anyone that finds me shall kill me.
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And the Lord God said to him, Not so, anyone that slays Cain shall suffer a seven-fold vengeance; and the Lord God set a mark upon Cain, so that no one that found him would kill him.
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So Cain went forth from the presence of God, and dwelt in the land of Nod over against Eden.
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And Cain knew his wife, and having conceived she bore Enoch; and he built a city; and he named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
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And to Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael; and Mehujael begot Methushael; and Methushael begot Lamech.
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And Lamech took to himself two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the second [was] Zillah.
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And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those that dwell in tents, feeding cattle.
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And the name of his brother was Jubal; it was he who invented the psaltery and harp.
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And Zillah also bore Tubal-Cain; he was a smith, a manufacturer both of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.
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And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, you wives of Lamech, consider my words, because I have slain a man to my sorrow and a youth to my grief.
Genesis 9:5
For your lifeblood shall I require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I shall require a man's life at the hand of his fellow man.
Genesis 9:6
He that sheds man's blood, instead of that blood shall his own be shed, for in the image of God I made man.
Leviticus 24:21
Whosoever shall strike a man, and he shall die, let him die the death.
Numbers 35:16-34
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And if he should strike him with an iron instrument, and the man should die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
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And if he should strike him with a stone [thrown] from his hand, whereby a man may die, and he [thus] dies, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
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And if he should stike him with an instrument of wood from his hand, whereby he may die, and he [thus] dies, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
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The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: whenever he shall meet him, he shall put him to death.
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And if he should thrust him, out of hatred, or cast anything upon him from an ambush, and the man should die,
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or if he has stricken him with his hand through anger, and the man should die, let the man that struck him be put to death by all means, he is a murderer: let the murderer by all means be put to death; the avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meets him.
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But if he should thrust him suddenly, not through enmity, or cast anything upon him, not from an ambush,
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or [strike him] with any stone, whereby a man may die, unawares, and it should fall upon him, and he should die, but he was not his enemy, nor sought to hurt him;
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then the assembly shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood, according to these judgments.
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And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he fled for refuge; and he shall dwell there till the death of the high priest, whom they anointed with the holy oil.
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But if the manslayer should in any way go out beyond the bounds of the city where he fled for refuge,
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and the avenger of blood should find him outside the bounds of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood should kill the manslayer, he is not guilty.
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For he ought to have remained in the city of refuge till the high priest died; and after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return to the land of his possession.
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And these things shall be to you for an ordinance of judgment throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
30
Whoever kills a man, you shall slay the murderer on the testimony of witnesses; and one witness shall not testify against a soul that he should die.
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And you shall not accept ransoms for life from a murderer who is worthy of death, for he shall be surely put to death.
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You shall not accept a ransom [to excuse] his fleeing to the city of refuge, so that he should again dwell in the land, until the death of the high priest.
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So shall you not pollute with murder the land in which you dwell; for this blood pollutes the land, and the land shall not be purged from the blood shed upon it, but by the blood of him that shed it.
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And you shall not defile the land on which you dwell, on which I dwell in the midst of you; for I am the Lord dwelling in the midst of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 5:17
You shall not commit murder.
Deuteronomy 19:11-13
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But if there should be in you a man hating his neighbor, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities,
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then shall the elders of his city send, and take him from there, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the avengers of blood, and he shall die.
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Your eye shall not spare him; so shall you purge innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be well with you.
2 Samuel 12:9
Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do that which is evil in His eyes? You have slain Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and you have taken his wife to be your wife, and you have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel 12:10
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and you have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite, to be your wife.
2 Kings 21:16
Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem [with it] from one end to the other, beside his sins with which he caused Judah to sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 24:22
So Joash remembered not the kindness which his father Jehoiada had exercised towards him, but killed his son. And as he died, he said, The Lord look upon [it], and judge.
Psalm 10:8-11
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He lies in wait with rich [men] in secret places, in order to slay the innocent: his eyes are set against the poor.
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He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him [after him]: he will bring him down in his snare.
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He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.
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For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He has turned away His face so as never to look.
Proverbs 1:11
If they should exhort you, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, and let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth:
Proverbs 1:18
For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil.
Isaiah 26:21
For behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from [His] holy place on those that dwell upon the earth; the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.
Jeremiah 26:15
But be certain of this, that if you kill me, you shall bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon its inhabitants; for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.
Matthew 5:21
"You have heard that it was said to the ancients, 'You shall not kill,' and whoever kills will be liable to the judgment.
Matthew 5:22
But I say to you that whoever gets angry with his brother without cause will be liable to the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, 'Empty-head!' will be liable to the council. But whoever says, ' fool!' will be liable to the fiery hell.
Acts 28:4
And when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "Certainly this man is a murderer, whom though he was rescued from the sea, justice does not permit to continue living."
Romans 13:9
For, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not kill," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and [if] there is any other commandment, in this word it is summed up, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Galatians 5:21
envies, murders, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like; which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Timothy 1:9
knowing this: that the law is not laid down for the righteous, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for killers of fathers and killers of mothers, for murderers,
James 2:11
For He who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "You shall not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but [yet] you murder, [then] you have become a transgressor of the law.
James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to the one who does not show mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
1 John 3:12-15
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not as Cain who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his works were evil and the [works] of his brother were righteous.
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Do not marvel, my brothers, if the world hates you.
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We know that we have passed over from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death.
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Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.