Gun Control

Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.

Then he said to them, “But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.

“When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. — read the full passage →

Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears”; — read the full passage →

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. — read the full passage →

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

They all built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands worked in the work, and with the other held his weapon; — read the full passage →

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. — read the full passage →

Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.

I will surely require your blood of your lives; at the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man. — read the full passage →

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, — read the full passage →

David said to his men, “Every man put on his sword!” Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David; and two hundred stayed by the baggage.

They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.” — read the full passage →

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.” — read the full passage →

The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion. — read the full passage →

David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: — read the full passage →

“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God. — read the full passage →

Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods: therefore I will save you no more. — read the full passage →

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand; — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. — read the full passage →

Don’t be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them: — read the full passage →

He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow. — read the full passage →

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever. — read the full passage →

Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There shall be nothing of value among them. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. — read the full passage →

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads. — read the full passage →

It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him. — read the full passage →

You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain. — read the full passage →

Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? Yet, because you relied on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand. — read the full passage →

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law. — read the full passage →

This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. — read the full passage →

You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God. — read the full passage →

Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth. — read the full passage →

Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days. — read the full passage →

But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. — read the full passage →

The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. — read the full passage →

A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. — read the full passage →

The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat. — read the full passage →

when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it. — read the full passage →

David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader. — read the full passage →

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again. — read the full passage →

Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying, — read the full passage →

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. — read the full passage →

I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. — read the full passage →

God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice; — read the full passage →

know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you. — read the full passage →

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.” — read the full passage →

“Behold, I have told you beforehand.

Let his days be few. Let another take his office. — read the full passage →

Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel; — read the full passage →

In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel for nine years. — read the full passage →

When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had passed over, their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel. — read the full passage →

As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. — read the full passage →

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; don’t fear the reproach of men, neither be dismayed at their insults. — read the full passage →

Listen, islands, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name: — read the full passage →

I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? — read the full passage →

I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. — read the full passage →

Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.” — read the full passage →

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. — read the full passage →

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord? — read the full passage →

After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul. — read the full passage →

Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations. — read the full passage →

Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty. — read the full passage →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart. — read the full passage →

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. — read the full passage →

When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?” — read the full passage →

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron; — read the full passage →

They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off. — read the full passage →

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. — read the full passage →

David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”

But now your kingdom shall not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.” — read the full passage →

There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. — read the full passage →

He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they also were gathered together after him: and he sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. — read the full passage →

All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel. — read the full passage →

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. — read the full passage →

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. — read the full passage →

“Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?” — read the full passage →

Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!” — read the full passage →

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’” — read the full passage →

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten. — read the full passage →

A wise man’s heart is at his right hand, but a fool’s heart at his left. — read the full passage →

Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman! — read the full passage →