30 Bible Verses About Killing

“You shall not murder.”

“You shall not murder.”

“You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’”

“Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.”

“The commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not covet,’ and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

“Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.”

“Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.”

“Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.”

“But if anyone strikes someone with an iron object so that they die, he is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death. Or if anyone has a stone in his hand that could kill, and he strikes someone so that they die, he is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death. Or if anyone has a wooden object in his hand that could kill, and he hits someone so that they die, he is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.”

“But if out of hate someone lies in wait, assaults and kills a neighbor, and then flees to one of these cities, the killer shall be sent for by the town elders, be brought back from the city, and handed over to the avenger of blood to die.”

“Cursed is anyone who kills their neighbor secretly.”

“There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood.”

“If you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm.”

“This is what the Lord says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.”

“There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.”

“But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.”

“You know the commandments: ‘You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’”

“You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this.”

“Aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the wilderness some time ago?”

“Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”

“Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”

“And envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.”

“We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine.”

“But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

“Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.”

“Which ones?” he inquired. Jesus replied, “‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony.”

“Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him.”

“Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.”

“Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.”

“Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, ‘But we knew nothing about this,’ does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?”