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Killing Innocent
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“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →
“You shall not murder.
“‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
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.”
“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;
Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow. — read the full passage →
You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.
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.
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 →
But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
“Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.
At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock. — 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.
But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →
Thus says Yahweh of Armies, ‘I have marked that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way, when he came up out of Egypt. — read the full passage →
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.’ — read the full passage →
He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!” — read the full passage →
“You shall not murder.
“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.’
Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”
Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Jehoram his son reigned in his place. — read the full passage →
A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by Yahweh’s word, “Please strike me!” The man refused to strike him. — read the full passage →
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands. — read the full passage →
Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves, — read the full passage →
Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house, — read the full passage →
“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →
For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.
Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →
He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →
The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. — 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 →
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception. — read the full passage →
Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the enchanters, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.
When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.
Also Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →
In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.
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.
Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
It is because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them, says Yahweh, and do according to all that I have commanded you. — read the full passage →
Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.
Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie. — read the full passage →
Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →
God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.
“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me. — read the full passage →
But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.
After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. — read the full passage →
but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy. — read the full passage →
For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he didn’t do that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, like David his father;
So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into Yahweh’s ark, he struck of the people fifty thousand seventy men; and the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.
They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow, and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
“‘A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them.’”
For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.
They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →
Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things. — read the full passage →
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; — read the full passage →
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