Killing innocent

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• Exodus 23:7

  Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

• Proverbs 6:16–19

  These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, …

• Exodus 20:13

  Thou shalt not kill.

• Leviticus 24:17

  And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.

• 1 John 3:12

  Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

• Proverbs 17:15

  He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

• Genesis 9:6

  Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

• Isaiah 5:20

  Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

• Romans 9:11

  (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

• Romans 12:19

  Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

• Proverbs 6:17

  A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

• Jeremiah 1:5

  Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

• Psalms 11:5

  The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

• Exodus 21:22–25

  If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, …

• Joel 3:19

  Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

• James 4:2

  Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

• Deuteronomy 27:25

  Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

• 1 Samuel 15:3

  Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

• 1 John 3:15

  Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

• Exodus 22:2

  If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.

• Romans 13:4

  For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

• Genesis 9:5–6

  And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

• Exodus 12:29–30

  And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

• Jeremiah 22:17

  But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

• Exodus 22:19

  Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

• Matthew 26:52

  Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.