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Mat 5:21 — 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:

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

it		Mat 5:27,33,43; 2Sa 20:18; Job 8:8-10
by them		or, to them
Thou		Gen 9:5,6; Exd 20:13; Deu 5:17
and		Exd 21:12-14; Num 35:12,16-21,30-34; Deu 21:7-9; 1Ki 2:5,6,31,32

Correlating Passages

	Mat 5:27	Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
	Mat 5:33	Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
	Mat 5:43	Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
	2Sa 20:18	Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask [counsel] at Abel: and so they ended [the matter].
	Job 8:8	For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
	Job 8:9	(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)
	Job 8:10	Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

Thou

	Gen 9:5	And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
	Gen 9:6	Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
	Exd 20:13	Thou shalt not kill.
	Deu 5:17	Thou shalt not kill.

and

	Exd 21:12	He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
	Exd 21:13	And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
	Exd 21:14	But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
	Num 35:12	And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.
	Num 35:16	And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
	Num 35:17	And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
	Num 35:18	Or [if] he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
	Num 35:19	The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
	Num 35:20	But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;
	Num 35:21	Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote [him] shall surely be put to death; [for] he [is] a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
	Num 35:30	Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person [to cause him] to die.
	Num 35:31	Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which [is] guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
	Num 35:32	And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
	Num 35:33	So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye [are]: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
	Num 35:34	Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
	Deu 21:7	And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen [it].
	Deu 21:8	Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
	Deu 21:9	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.
	1Ki 2:5	Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, [and] what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that [was] about his loins, and in his shoes that [were] on his feet.
	1Ki 2:6	Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
	1Ki 2:31	And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
	1Ki 2:32	And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing [thereof, 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.

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Scott, Thomas. "Matthew 5:21," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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