9 Bible Verses about Capital Punishment
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And surely, your blood of your lives I will search out, from the hand of every living thing I will search it out, and from the hand of man; from the hand of a man's brother I will search out the life of man. He pouring out man's blood, by man his blood shall be poured out: for in the image of God he made man.
And surely, your blood of your lives I will search out, from the hand of every living thing I will search it out, and from the hand of man; from the hand of a man's brother I will search out the life of man.
And a man who shall commit adultery with a man's wife, who shall commit adultery with his friend's wife, dying, he shall die, the adulterer and the adulteress.
And a man who shall lie with his father's wife, uncovered his father's nakedness: dying, they shall die: they two their blood is upon them, And a man who shall lie with his daughter-in-law, dying, they shall die, they two: they did profanation; their blood is upon them. And a man who shall lie with a male in a woman's bed, they did abomination: they two, dying, shall die; their blood is upon them.read more.
A man who shall take a woman and her mother, it wickedness: in fire they shall be burnt, he and they: and there shall not be wickedness in the midst of you.
And a man who shall lie with a male in a woman's bed, they did abomination: they two, dying, shall die; their blood is upon them.
And if in the field the man shall find the betrothed maiden, and the man held fast upon her, and lay with her, and the man that lay with her died alone.
When there shall arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he gave to thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come which he spake to thee, saying, We will go after other gods which we know not, and we will serve them, Thou shalt not hear to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah thy God tries you to know whether ye are loving Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.read more.
Ye shall go after Jehovah your God, and ye shall fear him, and his commands shall ye watch, and to his voice shall ye hear, and ye shall serve him, and to him shall ye cleave. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall die, for he spake a turning away from Jehovah your God, having brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed thee from the house of servants, to thrust thee away from the way which Jehovah thy God commanded to go in it: and put thou away the evil from the midst of thee. When thy brother, the son of thy mother, shall entice thee, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend who is as thy soul, in secret, saying, We will go and serve other gods which thou knewest not, thou, and thy fathers; From the gods of the people which are round about you, coming near to thee, or being far off from thee, from the end of the earth even to the end of the earth; Thou shalt not be willing to him, and thou shalt not hear to him, and thine eye shall not have compassion upon him, and thou shalt not pity, and thou shalt not cover over him: But killing, thou shalt kill him; thy hand shall be upon him for the first to put him to death, and the hand of all the people at last. And stone him with stones and he died, for he sought to thrust thee away from Jehovah thy God, having brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of servants.
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Punishment » Capital Punishment » For capital offences
And a man who shall commit adultery with a man's wife, who shall commit adultery with his friend's wife, dying, he shall die, the adulterer and the adulteress.
And if a man shall act proudly against his friend to kill him with craftiness, from mine altar shalt thou take him to die.
He pouring out man's blood, by man his blood shall be poured out: for in the image of God he made man.
And all the men of his city stoned him with stones, and he died: and put thou away evil from the midst of thee, and all Israel shall hear and shall fear.
He sacrificing to a God except to Jehovah himself alone, shall be devoted to destruction.
Punishment » Capital Punishment » Delayed
And the fourth generation they shall turn back hither: for the crime of the Amorite has not been completed till now.
For sake of my name I will delay Mine anger; I will be muzzled towards thee, not cutting thee of
They having been once unbelieving, when the longsuffering of God waited in Noah's days, the ark being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Thou sawest that Ahab humbled himself from before me. Because that he humbled. himself from before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: in the days of his sons I will bring the evil upon his house.
But in thy days I will not do it for sake of David thy father; out of the hand of thy son will I rend it
Punishment » Capital Punishment » Examples of the infliction of
And the earth shall open her mouth and shall swallow them and their houses, and all the men which to Korah, and all the possessions.
And immediately the messenger of the Lord struck him, because he gave not the glory to God: and eaten by worms, he expired.
And fire will come forth from before Jehovah, and will consume them, and they will die before Jehovah.
And Joshua will say, Why didst thou trouble us? Jehovah will trouble thee in this day, and all Israel will stone him with stone, and they will burn them in fire, and they will stone them with stones.
And they will put hands upon her, and she will come to the entrance of the gate of horses of the king's house; and they will slay her there.
Punishment » Capital Punishment » Of children
Folly being bound in the heart of a youth; the rod of correction shall remove it far off from him.
Correct thy son when there is hope, and thy soul shall not lift up for his sighing.
Thou shalt not withhold instruction from youth: if thou shalt strike him with a rod he shall not die.
He withholding his rod hates his son: and he loving him, sought correction for him.