Exodus 20:13

The Ten Commandments

¹² "Honor your father and your mother, so that your days can be long on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving you. ¹³ "You shall not murder. ¹⁴ "You shall not commit adultery.

You Shall Not Murder

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Romans 13:9

For the [commandments], "You shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet," and if [there is] any other commandment, are summed up in this statement: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

Genesis 9:5-6

And {your lifeblood} I will require; from {every animal} I will require it. And from the hand of humankind, from the hand of [each] man to his brother I will require the life of humankind.

Exodus 21:20

And if a man strikes his male slave or his female slave with the rod and he dies under his hand, he will surely be avenged.

Isaiah 26:21

For look! Yahweh [is] about to come out from his place to punish the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth against him, and the earth will disclose her blood and will no longer cover her slain.

Matthew 5:21-22

"You have heard that it was said to the {people of old}, 'Do not commit murder,' and 'whoever commits murder will be subject to judgment.'

Matthew 19:18

He said to him, "Which [ones]?" And Jesus said, "Do not commit murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony,

James 2:11

For the one who said "Do not commit adultery" also said "Do not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

Genesis 4:8-23

Then Cain said to his brother Abel, ["Let us go out into the field."] And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

Exodus 21:14

But if a man schemes against his neighbor to kill him by treachery, you will take him from my altar to die.

Exodus 21:29

But if it was a goring ox {before} and its owner was warned and did not restrain it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox will be stoned, and the owner also will be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

And a killer of a domestic animal must repay [for] it, and a killer of a human shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:16-34

" 'But if he hit him with an object of iron, so that he dies, the killer must surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 5:17

'You shall not murder.

Deuteronomy 19:11-13

But if someone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him {and murders him}, and [the murderer] flees to one of these cities,

2 Samuel 12:9-10

Why have you despised the word of Yahweh by doing evil in his eyes? Uriah the Hittite you have struck down with the sword, and his wife you have taken to yourself as wife! You have killed him with the sword of the {Ammonites}!

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he filled Jerusalem {from one end to another}, apart from his sin which he caused Judah to sin by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 24:22

So King Joash did not remember the loyal love that Jehoiada had shown to him, and he killed his son. And as he was dying he said, "May Yahweh see and avenge!"

Psalm 10:8-11

He sits in ambush in villages; in the hiding places he kills [the] innocent. His eyes {lurk} for [the] helpless.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, "Come with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause.

Proverbs 1:18

They lie in wait for their [own] blood. They ambush their [own] lives.

Jeremiah 26:15

Only you must certainly know that if you put me to death, you will bring on yourselves innocent blood, and on this city and on its inhabitants, for {truly} Yahweh sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears."

Acts 28:4

And when the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, "Doubtless this man is a murderer whom, [although he] was rescued from the sea, Justice has not permitted to live!"

Galatians 5:21

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, [things] which I am telling you [in advance], just as I said before, that the ones who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Timothy 1:9

knowing this, that the law [is] not given for a righteous [person] but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and totally worldly, for the one who kills his father and the one who kills his mother, for murderers,

James 2:13

For judgment [is] merciless to the one who has not practiced mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

1 John 3:12-15

not as Cain, who was of the evil one and violently murdered his brother. And {for what reason} did he violently murder him? Because his deeds were evil and the [deeds] of his brother [were] righteous.