Exodus 20:13
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13 (A)“You shall not murder.[a]
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- Exodus 20:13 The Hebrew word also covers causing human death through carelessness or negligence
Romans 13:9
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9 For the commandments, (A)“You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: (B)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
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Deuteronomy 5:17
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17 (A)“‘You shall not murder.[a]
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- Deuteronomy 5:17 The Hebrew word also covers causing human death through carelessness or negligence
Genesis 9:5-6
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5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: (A)from every beast I will require it and (B)from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
6 (C)“Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
(D)for God made man in his own image.
Matthew 5:21-22
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Anger
21 (A)“You have heard that it was said to those of old, (B)‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable (C)to judgment.’ 22 But I say to you that (D)everyone who is angry with his brother[a] will be liable (E)to judgment; whoever insults[b] his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to (F)the hell[c] of fire.
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- Matthew 5:22 Some manuscripts insert without cause
- Matthew 5:22 Greek says Raca to (a term of abuse)
- Matthew 5:22 Greek Gehenna; also verses 29, 30
Exodus 21:14
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14 But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, (A)you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
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James 2:11
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11 For he who said, (A)“Do not commit adultery,” also said, (B)“Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
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Matthew 19:18
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18 He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, (A)“You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,
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Deuteronomy 19:11-13
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11 “But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him (A)and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities, 12 then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die. 13 (B)Your eye shall not pity him, (C)but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood[a] from Israel, so that it may be well with you.
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- Deuteronomy 19:13 Or the blood of the innocent
Leviticus 24:21
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21 (A)Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, (B)and whoever kills a person shall be put to death.
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Exodus 21:20
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20 “When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.
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1 John 3:12-15
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12 We should not be like (A)Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? (B)Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, brothers,[a] (C)that the world hates you. 14 We know that (D)we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. 15 (E)Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that (F)no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
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- 1 John 3:13 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters; also verses 14, 16
James 2:13
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13 For (A)judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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1 Timothy 1:9
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9 understanding this, that the (A)law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,
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Isaiah 26:21
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21 (A)For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place
to punish the inhabitants of (B)the earth for their iniquity,
and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
and will no more cover its slain.
Galatians 5:21
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21 envy,[a] drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that (A)those who do[b] such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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- Galatians 5:21 Some manuscripts add murder
- Galatians 5:21 Or make a practice of doing
Proverbs 1:18
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Proverbs 1:11
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11 If they say, “Come with us, (A)let us lie in wait for blood;
(B)let us ambush the innocent without reason;
Jeremiah 26:15
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15 Only know for certain that if you put me to death, (A)you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the Lord sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”
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Psalm 10:8-11
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8 He sits in ambush in the villages;
in (A)hiding places he murders the innocent.
His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;
9 he lurks in ambush like (B)a lion in his (C)thicket;
he (D)lurks that he may seize the poor;
he seizes the poor when he draws him into his (E)net.
10 The helpless are crushed, sink down,
and fall by his might.
11 He says in his heart, “God has forgotten,
he has (F)hidden his face, he (G)will never see it.”
2 Chronicles 24:22
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22 Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah's father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see (A)and avenge!”[a]
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- 2 Chronicles 24:22 Or and require it
2 Kings 21:16
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16 (A)Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin (B)that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
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2 Samuel 12:9-10
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9 (A)Why have you despised the word of the Lord, (B)to do what is evil in his sight? (C)You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and (D)have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’
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Numbers 35:16-34
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16 (A)“But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death. 17 And if he struck him down with a stone tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death. 18 Or if he struck him down with a wooden tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death. 19 (B)The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death. 20 And if he pushed him out of hatred or hurled something at him, (C)lying in wait, so that he died, 21 or in enmity struck him down with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death. He is a murderer. (D)The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.
22 “But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or hurled anything on him (E)without lying in wait 23 or used a stone that could cause death, and without seeing him dropped it on him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy and did not seek his harm, 24 then (F)the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and (G)the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules. 25 And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it (H)until the death of the high priest (I)who was anointed with the holy oil. 26 But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the boundaries of his city of refuge to which he fled, 27 and (J)the avenger of blood finds him outside the boundaries of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood. 28 For he must remain in his city of refuge (K)until the death of the high priest, but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession. 29 And these things shall be for (L)a statute and rule for you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
30 “If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the (M)evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness. 31 Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death. 32 And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest. 33 You shall not (N)pollute the land in which you live, for blood (O)pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except (P)by the blood of the one who shed it. 34 (Q)You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, (R)for I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”
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