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Want to know what the Bible says about Killing? Here are 142 Bible verses about Killing from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Matthew 5:44 NIV
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
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Matthew 5:38-39 NIV
38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.
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Jeremiah 19:9 NIV
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.’
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2 Peter 2:7 NIV
and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless
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Joshua 19:47 NIV
(When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and attacked Leshem , took it, put it to the sword and occupied it. They settled in Leshem and named it Dan after their ancestor.)
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Genesis 4:15 NIV
But the Lord said to him, “Not so ; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over. ” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
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1 Kings 20:42 NIV
He said to the king, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You have set free a man I had determined should die. Therefore it is your life for his life, your people for his people.’”
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Psalm 139:13-16 NIV
13 For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.
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Numbers 31:17-18 NIV
17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
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Exodus 21:23 NIV
But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life,
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