Genesis 9:6

God's Covenant With Noah

⁵ Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man. ⁶ “Whoever sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For in the image of God
He made man.
⁷ “As for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”

God Made

Image of God

Genesis 1:26-27

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Leviticus 24:17

‘If a man takes the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death.

Matthew 26:52

Then Jesus *said to him, “Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.

Revelation 13:10

If anyone is destined for captivity, to captivity he goes; if anyone kills with the sword, with the sword he must be killed. Here is the perseverance and the faith of the saints.

Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.

Exodus 21:12-14

“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

James 3:9

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God;

Genesis 4:14

Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

Exodus 22:2-3

“If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.

Leviticus 17:4

and has not brought it to the doorway of the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, bloodguiltiness is to be reckoned to that man. He has shed blood and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

Numbers 35:25

The congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he fled; and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

Numbers 35:33

So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.

1 Kings 2:5-6

“Now you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed; he also shed the blood of war in peace. And he put the blood of war on his belt about his waist, and on his sandals on his feet.

1 Kings 2:28-34

Now the news came to Joab, for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he had not followed Absalom. And Joab fled to the tent of the Lord and took hold of the horns of the altar.

Psalm 51:4

Against You, You only, I have sinned
And done what is evil in Your sight,
So that You are justified when You speak
And blameless when You judge.

Romans 13:4

for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.