9 Bible Verses about Capital Punishment
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And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man. Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.
And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.
And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them. And if a man has sex relations with his son's wife, the two of them are to be put to death: it is unnatural; their blood will be on them. And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.read more.
And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.
And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.
But if the man, meeting such a virgin in the open country, takes her by force, then only the man is to be put to death;
If ever you have among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder takes place, and he says to you, Let us go after other gods, which are strange to you, and give them worship; Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God is testing you, to see if all the love of your heart and soul is given to him.read more.
But keep on in the ways of the Lord your God, fearing him and keeping his orders and hearing his voice, worshipping him and being true to him. And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you. If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers; Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other; Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover; But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people. Let him be stoned with stones till he is dead; because it was his purpose to make you false to the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
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Punishment » Capital Punishment » For capital offences
And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.
But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.
Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.
Complete destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the Lord.
Punishment » Capital Punishment » Delayed
And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.
Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.
Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water:
Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.
I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.
Punishment » Capital Punishment » Examples of the infliction of
And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods.
And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.
And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.
And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire.
So they put their hands on her, and she went to the king's house by the doorway of the king's horses; and there she was put to death.
Punishment » Capital Punishment » Of children
Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.
Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.
Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.
He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.