11 Bible Verses about Suicide
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And flinging down the silver into the Sanctuary, he rushed out, and went and hanged himself.
"Now this man bought a plot of ground with the price of his treachery, and falling there headlong he burst asunder and all his bowels gushed out. "This fact became known to the people of Jerusalem so that the place was called in their language, Acheldamach, The Field of Blood.
The jailer, roused from sleep, and seeing the doors wide open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he thought that the prisoners had escaped.
In those days men will seek death, and will not find it; they will long to die, but death ever flees from them.
And they began to say to the mountains and to the rocks. "Fall upon us and hide us From the face of him who is seated upon the throne, And from the wrath of the Lamb;
Then he said to his disciples. "For this is the reason I say to you. Be not anxious for your life, what you shall eat; nor yet your body what shall you wear. "For the life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes. "Consider the ravens; they neither sow nor reap; they have no storehouse nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds?read more.
"And which of you by taking anxious thought can add a cubit to his height?
And since it is appointed to men once to die, and after that the judgment;
"The second, which is like it, is this, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it as Christ does the church;
"Therefore everything that you would have men do to you, do you also the same to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.
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Saul, king of israel » The man who lost a crown characteristics of » Suicide
Suicide » Despair sometimes drives men to suicide
"Now this man bought a plot of ground with the price of his treachery, and falling there headlong he burst asunder and all his bowels gushed out.
And flinging down the silver into the Sanctuary, he rushed out, and went and hanged himself.
Suicide » Instances of » Saul and his armor-bearer
Suicide » Temptation to, of jesus
Then the devil took him up into the Holy City and stood him on the parapet of the temple, and said to him. "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, "He will give his angels charge over thee; Upon their hands they will bear thee up, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone."
Then he brought him to Jerusalem, and caused him to stand upon the Temple roof, and said to him. "If you really are the Son of God throw yourself down here; for it is written, "He shall give his angels charge of thee, to guard thee safely; "They will bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy food against a stone."
Suicide » Instances of » Judas
"Now this man bought a plot of ground with the price of his treachery, and falling there headlong he burst asunder and all his bowels gushed out.
And flinging down the silver into the Sanctuary, he rushed out, and went and hanged himself.
Suicide » Instances of » Samson
Suicide » Instances of » Ahithophel
Suicide » Instances of » Zimri
Suicide » Of the philippian jailer
The jailer, roused from sleep, and seeing the doors wide open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he thought that the prisoners had escaped.
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1 Corinthians 6:19-20Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?