Matthew 5:21

Webster's Bible (1833)

"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.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 5:17 : 17 "You shall not murder.
  • Exod 20:13 : 13 "You shall not murder.
  • Matt 5:27 : 27 "You have heard that it was said, {TR adds "to the ancients,"} 'You shall not commit adultery;'
  • Matt 5:33 : 33 "Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, 'You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,'
  • Matt 5:43 : 43 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'
  • Num 35:30-34 : 30 Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die. 31 Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death. 32 You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. 33 So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it. 34 You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.
  • Gen 9:5-6 : 5 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. 6 Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.
  • Exod 21:12-14 : 12 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death, 13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. 14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
  • Num 35:12 : 12 The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
  • Num 35:16-21 : 16 But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 17 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 18 Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death. 20 If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died, 21 or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.
  • Matt 5:38 : 38 "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'
  • Deut 21:7-9 : 7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. 8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood [to remain] in the midst of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven them. 9 So shall you put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
  • 1 Kgs 2:5-6 : 5 Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet. 6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
  • 1 Kgs 2:31-32 : 31 The king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house. 32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it, [to wit], Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
  • Job 8:8-9 : 8 "Please inquire of past generations, Find out about the learning of their fathers. 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.) 10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, And utter words out of their heart?
  • 2 Sam 20:18 : 18 Then she spoke, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask [counsel] at Abel: and so they ended [the matter].
  • Deut 16:18 : 18 Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 5:17-18
    2 verses
    84%

    17 "You shall not murder.

    18 "Neither shall you commit adultery.

  • Matt 5:22-23
    2 verses
    82%

    22 But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, 'Raca{"Raca" is an Aramaic insult, related to the word for "empty" and conveying the idea of empty-headedness.}!' shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna{Gehenna is another name for Hell that brings to mind an image of a burning garbage dump with dead bodies in it.}.

    23 "If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

  • Exod 20:13-14
    2 verses
    80%

    13 "You shall not murder.

    14 "You shall not commit adultery.

  • Jas 2:11
    80%

    11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

  • Matt 5:27-28
    2 verses
    77%

    27 "You have heard that it was said, {TR adds "to the ancients,"} 'You shall not commit adultery;'

    28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

  • Lev 24:17
    77%

    17 "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

  • Matt 5:38
    75%

    38 "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'

  • Exod 21:12
    75%

    12 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

  • Exod 21:14-15
    2 verses
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    14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

    15 "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

  • Matt 19:18
    74%

    18 He said to him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, "'You shall not murder.' 'You shall not commit adultery.' 'You shall not steal.' 'You shall not offer false testimony.'

  • Matt 5:33
    74%

    33 "Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, 'You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,'

  • Matt 5:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19 Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

    20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

  • Num 35:21
    73%

    21 or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

  • Lev 24:21
    72%

    21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • Num 35:30-31
    2 verses
    72%

    30 Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

    31 Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

  • Matt 15:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

    5 But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,"

  • Exod 21:17
    72%

    17 "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

  • 1 John 3:15
    72%

    15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

  • Num 35:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    17 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  • Matt 5:43
    72%

    43 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'

  • Deut 19:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.

    21 Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Lev 20:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9 "'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

    10 "'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

  • Exod 21:23
    71%

    23 But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

  • Num 35:19
    71%

    19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

  • Matt 7:1
    71%

    1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.

  • Jas 5:6
    71%

    6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.

  • Luke 12:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4 "I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

    5 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.{or, Hell} Yes, I tell you, fear him.

  • Luke 18:20
    70%

    20 You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,' 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'"

  • Deut 19:10-12
    3 verses
    70%

    10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

    11 But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities;

    12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

  • Matt 10:21
    70%

    21 "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  • Mark 10:19
    70%

    19 You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.'"

  • Matt 10:28
    70%

    28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

  • Exod 35:2
    70%

    2 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.

  • Exod 31:14
    70%

    14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

  • Matt 5:31
    70%

    31 "It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'

  • Deut 13:9
    69%

    9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

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