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100 Bible Verses about Euthanasia

Ecclesiastes 7:17 ESV / 1,523 helpful votes

Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time?

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 1,225 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 ESV / 990 helpful votes

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 870 helpful votes

“You shall not murder.

Ecclesiastes 8:8 ESV / 628 helpful votes

No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 587 helpful votes

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 497 helpful votes

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 303 helpful votes

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 298 helpful votes

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Ecclesiastes 3:1-3 ESV / 258 helpful votes

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 234 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Job 1:21 ESV / 156 helpful votes

And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 151 helpful votes

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 133 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Psalm 139:16 ESV / 126 helpful votes

Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Genesis 9:5-6 ESV / 125 helpful votes

And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 118 helpful votes

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 112 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Job 12:10 ESV / 107 helpful votes

In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.

Job 30:23 ESV / 103 helpful votes

For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 101 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 100 helpful votes

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

1 Samuel 31:4-5 ESV / 97 helpful votes

Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it. And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 91 helpful votes

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 91 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 ESV / 85 helpful votes

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

1 Samuel 31:4 ESV / 85 helpful votes

Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.

Deuteronomy 32:39 ESV / 84 helpful votes

“‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Psalm 39:4 ESV / 79 helpful votes

“O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!

Judges 9:53-54 ESV / 75 helpful votes

And a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech's head and crushed his skull. Then he called quickly to the young man his armor-bearer and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

Job 14:5 ESV / 74 helpful votes

Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

2 Corinthians 4:17 ESV / 72 helpful votes

For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,

Exodus 23:7 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 68 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

2 Samuel 1:1-16 ESV / 65 helpful votes

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage. David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.” And David said to him, “How did it go? Tell me.” And he answered, “The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.” Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” ...

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

2 Samuel 17:23 ESV / 62 helpful votes

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.

1 Corinthians 15:26 ESV / 61 helpful votes

The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

Philippians 1:21 ESV / 60 helpful votes

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Romans 5:8 ESV / 56 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1 Kings 16:18 ESV / 56 helpful votes

And when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king's house and burned the king's house over him with fire and died,

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

John 10:10 ESV / 55 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Romans 5:3 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Proverbs 19:21 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.

Psalm 116:15 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

Psalm 36:9 ESV / 53 helpful votes

For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light.

Acts 17:28 ESV / 51 helpful votes

For “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

Judges 9:50-56 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez and captured it. But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women and all the leaders of the city fled to it and shut themselves in, and they went up to the roof of the tower. And Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire. And a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech's head and crushed his skull. Then he called quickly to the young man his armor-bearer and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” And his young man thrust him through, and he died. ...

2 Samuel 1:6-16 ESV / 49 helpful votes

And the young man who told him said, “By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear, and behold, the chariots and the horsemen were close upon him. And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. And I answered, ‘Here I am.’ And he said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’ And he said to me, ‘Stand beside me and kill me, for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.’ So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. And I took the crown that was on his head and the armlet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.” ...

Romans 8:37 ESV / 48 helpful votes

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Psalm 31:15 ESV / 48 helpful votes

My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

2 Samuel 1:10-17 ESV / 47 helpful votes

So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. And I took the crown that was on his head and the armlet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.” Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so did all the men who were with him. And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the Lord and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword. And David said to the young man who told him, “Where do you come from?” And he answered, “I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite.” David said to him, “How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the Lord's anointed?” ...

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Leviticus 24:17 ESV / 46 helpful votes

“Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.

Philippians 4:11 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV / 45 helpful votes

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Romans 8:32 ESV / 45 helpful votes

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Mark 8:34 ESV / 45 helpful votes

And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

James 5:16 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Romans 8:35 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

Romans 5:3-4 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

Matthew 22:37-40 ESV / 44 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Matthew 5:21-22 ESV / 44 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Ecclesiastes 3:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

Galatians 6:10 ESV / 43 helpful votes

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Matthew 8:16 ESV / 43 helpful votes

That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick.

1 Corinthians 15:3 ESV / 42 helpful votes

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,

Jeremiah 19:4 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

Psalm 24:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,

Job 2:9-10 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.” But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

1 John 2:6 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

Psalm 106:37-38 ESV / 41 helpful votes

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

Revelation 20:15 ESV / 40 helpful votes

And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Philippians 2:4-11 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. ...

Acts 1:18 ESV / 40 helpful votes

(Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out.

Matthew 19:18 ESV / 40 helpful votes

He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,

Leviticus 24:17-21 ESV / 40 helpful votes

“Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death. Whoever takes an animal's life shall make it good, life for life. If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him, fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him. Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, and whoever kills a person shall be put to death.

Exodus 21:12-14 ESV / 40 helpful votes

“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

Acts 5:29 ESV / 39 helpful votes

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

2 Samuel 1:9-10 ESV / 39 helpful votes

And he said to me, ‘Stand beside me and kill me, for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.’ So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. And I took the crown that was on his head and the armlet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 38 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 38 helpful votes

“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 5:17 ESV / 37 helpful votes

“‘You shall not murder.

Ephesians 5:1-2 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Numbers 35:16-31 ESV / 36 helpful votes

“But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death. And if he struck him down with a stone tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death. Or if he struck him down with a wooden tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death. The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death. And if he pushed him out of hatred or hurled something at him, lying in wait, so that he died, ...

Job 1:20-21 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Genesis 9:6-7 ESV / 35 helpful votes

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image. And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”

John 3:16 ESV / 33 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

James 2:26 ESV / 31 helpful votes

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

Proverbs 12:10 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

2 Samuel 1:16 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And David said to him, “Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the Lord's anointed.’”

John 13:34-35 ESV / 30 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Psalm 89:48 ESV / 28 helpful votes

What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

2 Samuel 1:1-27 ESV / 28 helpful votes

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage. David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.” And David said to him, “How did it go? Tell me.” And he answered, “The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.” Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” ...

Matthew 27:3-5 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.

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