taking your own life

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.

¹⁷But if anyone violates the Temple of God, God will destroy him. For the Temple of God is holy, and you are that Temple.

⁵For I will examine the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast. So also, at the hand of mankind, at the hand of each man and his brother, I will examine the life of mankind. ⁶Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God.

¹Most beloved, do not be willing to believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are of God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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?

¹³You shall not murder.

²My brothers, when you have fallen into various trials, consider everything a joy, ³knowing that the proving of your faith exercises patience, ⁴and patience brings a work to perfection, so that you may be perfect and whole, deficient in nothing.

³And the entire weight of the battle was turned against Saul. And the men who were archers pursued him. And he was severely wounded by the archers. ⁴Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and strike me, otherwise these uncircumcised may come and kill me, mocking me.” And his armor bearer was not willing. For he had been struck with an exceedingly great fear. And so, Saul took his own sword, and he fell upon it. ⁵And when his armor bearer had seen this, namely, that Saul had died, he too fell upon his sword, and he died with him. ⁶Therefore, Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.

¹The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. ²As it has been written by the prophet Isaiah: “Behold, I send my Angel before your face, who shall prepare your way before you. ³The voice of one crying out in the desert: Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight his paths.” ⁴John was in the desert, baptizing and preaching a baptism of repentance, as a remission of sins. ⁵And there went out to him all the region of Judea and all those of Jerusalem, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ⁶And John was clothed with camel’s hair and with a leather belt around his waist. And he ate locusts and wild honey.

¹⁰In his hand is the soul of all the living and the spirit of all the flesh of mankind.