Topic

Taking Your Own Life

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Ecclesiastes 7:17

Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

1 Corinthians 6:19–20

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 3:17

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

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. — read the full passage →

1 John 4:1

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

1 Corinthians 6:19

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

Exodus 20:13

Thou shalt not kill.

James 1:2–4

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; — read the full passage →

1 Samuel 31:3–6

And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. — read the full passage →

Mark 1:1–16:20

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; — read the full passage →

Job 12:10

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

Matthew 6:25

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Proverbs 13:3

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

Proverbs 3:5

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Deuteronomy 28:47–48

Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; — read the full passage →

Galatians 6:7

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

John 3:16–17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

1 Samuel 2:6

The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 2:16

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Exodus 21:12

He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

Romans 6:2

God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

John 14:6

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Colossians 3:3

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Matthew 6:3

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

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.

Numbers 1:3

From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

Genesis 3:3

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

Revelation 1:1

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Romans 8:6

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

John 8:12

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Matthew 6:34

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Genesis 3:17–19

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:2

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Ezekiel 47:7

Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

Isaiah 3:10

Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Proverbs 24:11

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

Genesis 4:9–11

And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? — read the full passage →

Psalms 119:105

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

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