Bible Verses About Sanctity of Life
This collection includes 50 passages about Sanctity of Life. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
Scripture Passages
(As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.
That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not kill.
And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctify you.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Whoso sheddeth manβs blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the Lord do sanctify him.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the Lord do sanctify them.
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his motherβs womb.
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God.
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
This is the first and great commandment.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
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