murderers
What does the Bible say about murderers? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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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.”
13You shall not murder.
19Do not defend yourselves, dearest ones. Instead, step aside from wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is mine. I shall give retribution, says the Lord.”
17Whoever will have struck and killed a man shall be put to death.
4For he is a minister of God for you unto good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid. For it is not without reason that he carries a sword. For he is a minister of God; an avenger to execute wrath upon whomever does evil.
17You shall not murder.
15Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding within him.
52Then Jesus said to him: “Put your sword back in its place. For all who take up the sword shall perish by the sword. 53Or do you think that I cannot ask my Father, so that he would give me, even now, more than twelve legions of Angels? 54How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must be so?”
21You have heard that it was said to the ancients: ‘You shall not murder; whoever will have murdered shall be liable to judgment.’
12Whoever strikes a man, intending to murder, shall be put to death.
9For example: You shall not commit adultery. You shall not kill. You shall not steal. You shall not speak false testimony. You shall not covet. And if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
1Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert, in order to be tempted by the devil. 2And when he had fasted for forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. 3And approaching, the tempter said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” 4And in response he said, “It has been written: ‘Not by bread alone shall man live, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ” 5Then the devil took him up, into the holy city, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6and said to him: “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down. For it has been written: ‘For he has given charge of you to his angels, and they shall take you into their hands, lest perhaps you may hurt your foot against a stone.’ ”