2 Samuel 4:11
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11 How much more, then, when wicked men have killed a righteous man on his bed in his own house! And now shall I not require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”(A)
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Psalm 9:12
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12 For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;
he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.(A)
Genesis 9:5-6
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5 For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.(A)
6 Whoever sheds the blood of a human,
by a human shall that person’s blood be shed,
for in his own image
God made humans.(B)
1 John 3:12
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12 We must not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.
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Habakkuk 1:12
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12 Are you not from of old,
O Lord my God, my Holy One?
You[a] shall not die.
O Lord, you have marked them for judgment,
and you, O Rock, have established them for punishment.(A)
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- 1.12 Or We
Habakkuk 1:4
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4 So the law becomes slack,
and justice never prevails.
The wicked surround the righteous;
therefore judgment comes forth perverted.(A)
Jeremiah 10:11
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11 Thus shall you say to them: The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.[a](A)
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- 10.11 This verse is in Aramaic
Proverbs 25:26
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26 Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain
are the righteous who give way before the wicked.(A)
Proverbs 2:22
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22 but the wicked will be cut off from the earth,
and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.(A)
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