9 Bible Verses about Capital Punishment
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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. "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
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.
"If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
If a man lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed perversion; their blood is upon them. If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.read more.
If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you.
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
"But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.
"If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, 'Let us go after other gods,' which you have not known, 'and let us serve them,' you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.read more.
You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. "If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,'which neither you nor your fathers have known, some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
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Punishment » Capital Punishment » For capital offences
"If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
"Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
"Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the LORD alone, shall be devoted to destruction.
Punishment » Capital Punishment » Delayed
And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."
"For my name's sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off.
because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
"Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house."
Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
Punishment » Capital Punishment » Examples of the infliction of
And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods.
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.
And fire came out from before the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.
And Joshua said, "Why did you bring trouble on us? The LORD brings trouble on you today." And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
So they laid hands on her, and she went into the entrance of the horse gate of the king's house, and they put her to death there.
Punishment » Capital Punishment » Of children
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
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