13 Bible Verses about Death Penalty For Violence

Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.

Jehovah gave the following regulations. Any of you that curse your father or mother shall be put to death. You are responsible for your own death.

Moses said: 'Honor your father and your mother. He also said: 'He that speaks evil of father or mother must die.'

God said, 'Honor your father and mother.' 'He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.'

He who causes one of my faithful little ones to stumble is in trouble. It would be better for him to end up in the deep sea with a great stone tied to his neck.

It is common knowledge among all the king's servants and the people of every part of the kingdom, that if anyone, man or woman, comes to the king in his inner room without being sent for, there is only one law for him, that he is to be put to death. Only those to whom the king's rod of gold is stretched out may keep their lives. I have not been sent for to come before the king in the past thirty days.

He who strikes (beats) his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not listen or obey his father or his mother when they chastise him, His father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown. They shall say to the elders of his city: This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious! He will not obey us! He is a glutton and a drunkard.read more.
All the men of his city shall stone him to death. In that way you will remove the evil from your midst. All Israel will hear about it and fear.

The man who acts presumptuously and does not listen to the priest or the judge will die. This way you will purge the evil from Israel. The priests and judges are there to serve Jehovah your God.

Whoever kidnaps another person must be put to death regardless of whether he has sold the kidnapped person or still has him.

If a man is caught kidnapping any of his brothers of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him violently or sells him, the thief shall die. You will purge the evil from among you.

If an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.

Any who sin deliberately, natives or foreigners, are guilty of treating Jehovah with contempt. They shall be put to death.