22 occurrences

'Person' in the Bible

"Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

Verse ConceptsEvil GenerationsExclusion

This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, for it is to be recognized as "the Lord's cancellation of debts."

Verse ConceptsDebtlent

you must bring to your city gates that man or woman who has done this wicked thing -- that very man or woman -- and you must stone that person to death.

Verse ConceptsGatesPunishment, Legal Aspects OfBusiness At The GatewayInstructions About Stoning

The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict -- that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

Verse Conceptsethics, socialDeath penaltyHigh Priest, In OtIrreverenceJudgesMinistry, Nature OfSin, Nature OfStubbornnessAnarchyDeath Penalty For Violence

You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent of your land that the Lord your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.

Verse ConceptsAsylumMaking RoadsDividing Into Three Things

Suppose he goes with someone else to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose from the handle and strikes his fellow worker so hard that he dies. The person responsible may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.

Verse ConceptsForestsToolsWoodCarpentry ToolsFelling TreesSharp ToolsIron Objects

However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.

Verse ConceptsWaitingPeople WaitingJudged As Murderers

A single witness may not testify against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Verse ConceptsAgreements, LegalConfirmationThree WitnessesdisagreementsMurderProof, As EvidenceRightsWitnesses, LegalOnly One PersonNot AloneTwo Or ThreeGuiltWitnessingBeing Singletestimonytestifyingaccusations

If a false witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime,

Verse ConceptsPunishmentsconsequencestestifyingaccusationsapostasy

Do not blame your people Israel whom you redeemed, O Lord, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person." Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerAcceptance, From GodAcceptance, divineExpiationGod Will Forgive

If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,

Verse ConceptsAtonementHangingPeople Hung To Death

You must not do anything to the young woman -- she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person and murders him,

A person of illegitimate birth may not enter the assembly of the Lord; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so.

Verse ConceptsIllegitimate ChildrenDescendants ofSex Before MarriageInfidelitySexual Purityinterracialmatrimonypremarital

If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentKidnappingCommerceDeath Penalty For Violencerelaxation

You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security.

Verse ConceptsOutside The House

If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

Verse Conceptsethics, social

Then, if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves.

Verse ConceptsSin, God's Judgment OnAdvice On Beating People

Cursed is the one who misleads a blind person on the road.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesRoadsDisabled PersonsAmen

Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'

Verse ConceptsBribery, Is SinChild AbuseAmenEffect Of Bribes

You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.

Verse ConceptsNoonRescueWorldly DilemmasWalking In DarknessNot ProsperingRobbing PeopleSpiritual Darkness

When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says, "I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit." This will destroy the watered ground with the parched.

Verse ConceptsSelf IndulgenceSelf DelusionFalse ConfidencePathways Of SinMoist ThingsObstinate IndividualsPersistence

Bible Theasaurus

Individual (61 instances)
Mortal (60 instances)
Somebody (34 instances)

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