Exodus 20:13

The Ten Commandments

¹² "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD 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 murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

Genesis 9:5-6

And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

Exodus 21:20

"When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.

Isaiah 26:21

For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.

Matthew 5:21-22

"You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.'

Matthew 19:18

He said to him, "Which ones?" And Jesus said, "You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,

James 2:11

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

Genesis 4:8-23

Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

Exodus 21:14

But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

Exodus 21:29

But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, and whoever kills a person shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:16-34

"But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.

Deuteronomy 5:17

"'You shall not murder.

Deuteronomy 19:11-13

"But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,

2 Samuel 12:9-10

Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah's father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, "May the LORD see and avenge!"

Psalm 10:8-11

He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason;

Proverbs 1:18

but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.

Jeremiah 26:15

Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the LORD sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears."

Acts 28:4

When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live."

Galatians 5:21

envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Timothy 1:9

understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

1 John 3:12-15

We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.