11 Bible Verses about Suicide
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And throwing down the silver in the temple he departed; and having gone away strangled himself.
This man therefore purchased a field with the price of the wickedness, and falling headlong burst in the middle and all his bowels were poured out; and this became known to all who lived at Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their language Aceldamach, which is Field of blood.
And the jailer awaking from sleep and seeing the doors of the prison opened, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
And in those days men shall seek death and not find it, and shall desire to die and death flee from them.
and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,
And he said to his disciples, I tell you, therefore, be not anxious for your soul what you shall eat, nor for the body what you shall put on. Is not the soul more than the food, and the body than the clothing? Consider the ravens; for they neither sow nor reap, and they have no private room, no storehouse; and God feeds them. How much are you better than the birds!read more.
And which of you can add a cubit to his stature?
And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this is the judgment,
And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church;
All things, therefore, which you wish men to do to you, do also thus 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
This man therefore purchased a field with the price of the wickedness, and falling headlong burst in the middle and all his bowels were poured out;
And throwing down the silver in the temple he departed; and having gone away strangled himself.
Suicide » Instances of » Saul and his armor-bearer
Suicide » Temptation to, of jesus
Then the devil took him into the holy city, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning you, and they shall take you up on their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.
And he brought him to Jerusalem and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here; for it is written, He will charge his angels concerning you, to guard you, and they shall bear you up on their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.
Suicide » Instances of » Judas
This man therefore purchased a field with the price of the wickedness, and falling headlong burst in the middle and all his bowels were poured out;
And throwing down the silver in the temple he departed; and having gone away strangled himself.
Suicide » Instances of » Samson
Suicide » Instances of » Ahithophel
Suicide » Instances of » Zimri
Suicide » Of the philippian jailer
And the jailer awaking from sleep and seeing the doors of the prison opened, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
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1 Corinthians 6:19-20Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own?