Exodus 20:13

The Ten Commandments

¹² Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you. ¹³ “You shall not murder. ¹⁴ Do not commit adultery.

You Shall Not Murder

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Romans 13:9

For the Law code says: You must not commit adultery, you must not murder, you must not steal, you must not bear false witness, and you must not covet. If there is any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying; namely, you must love your neighbor as yourself.

Genesis 9:5-6

I will require your lifeblood as an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. I will demand an accounting from each man for the life of his fellow man.

Exodus 21:20

If a slave owner takes a stick and beats his slave, whether male or female, and the slave dies on the spot, the owner is to be punished.

Isaiah 26:21

Behold! Jehovah is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose (reveal) the bloodshed upon her. She will conceal her slain no longer.

Matthew 5:21-22

You were told in the past, do not murder (kill). Any one who murders will be brought to trial.

Matthew 19:18

The man replied: Which law? And Jesus said: Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false witness,

James 2:11

For he who said: Do not commit adultery, also said: Do not murder (Greek: phoneuo: kill, slay, murder). Now if you do not commit adultery, but you commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

Genesis 4:8-23

While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

Exodus 21:14

If a man schemes and kills a man deliberately remove him from my altar and put him to death.

Exodus 21:29

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.

Leviticus 24:21

Whoever kills an animal shall replace it, but whoever kills a human being shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:16-34

If any of you uses an iron weapon to kill another person, you are a murderer. Murderers must be put to death.

Deuteronomy 5:17

Do not kill.

Deuteronomy 19:11-13

But if there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and murders him. If he flees to one of these cities,

2 Samuel 12:9-10

Why have you disobeyed my commands? Why did you do this evil thing? You had Uriah killed in battle! You let the Ammonites kill him. Then you took his wife!

2 Kings 21:16

Even more, Manasseh killed many innocent men. He filled Jerusalem from one end to the other with blood. He also caused Judah to sin and do evil in the eyes of Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 24:22

King Joash forgot that Zechariah's father had always been a loyal friend. So when the people of Judah plotted to kill Zechariah, Joash joined them and gave orders for them to stone him to death in the courtyard of the Temple. As Zechariah was dying, he said: I pray that Jehovah will see this and punish all of you.

Psalm 10:8-11

He waits in ambush in the villages. From his hiding places he kills innocent people. He searches for victims.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say: Come with us. Let us lie in wait to kill someone. Let us ambush the innocent without cause.

Proverbs 1:18

They lie in wait for their own blood (murder). They set an ambush for their own lives.

Jeremiah 26:15

But if you put me to death, you and everyone else in Jerusalem will be guilty of murdering an innocent man. This is because everything I spoke came from Jehovah.

Acts 28:4

The natives saw the snake hanging on Paul's hand and said to one another: This man must be a murderer, but Fate will not let him live, even though he escaped from the sea.

Galatians 5:21

envies, drunkenness, revelries, and things like these. I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that those who practice such things would not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Timothy 1:9

Knowing this, that Law is not made for a righteous person. It is for the lawless and unruly, the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, and for manslayers.

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy to him who shows no mercy. And mercy triumphs over judgment.

1 John 3:12-15

We should not be like Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he murder him? It was because his works were evil, and his brother's were righteous.