committing suicide
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17But if anyone violates the Temple of God, God will destroy him. For the Temple of God is holy, and you are that Temple.
17Do not try to be overly just, and do not try to be more wise than is necessary, lest you become stupid.
19Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.
13You shall not murder.
7Cast all your cares upon him, for he takes care of you.
16Do you not know that you are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God lives within you?
36But he who sins against me will wound his own soul. All who hate me love death.”
24Amen, amen, I say to you, that whoever hears my word, and believes in him who sent me, has eternal life, and he does not go into judgment, but instead he crosses from death into life.
8But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and drug users, and idolaters, and all liars, these shall be a part of the pool burning with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”
9If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.
23Then Ahithophel, seeing that his counsel had not been done, saddled his donkey, and he rose up and went away to his own house and to his own city. And putting his house in order, he killed himself by hanging. And he was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
38For I am certain that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor Powers, nor the present things, nor the future things, nor strength, 39nor the heights, nor the depths, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
17A merciful man benefits his own soul. But whoever is cruel casts out even his close relatives.