61 Bible Verses about Kill At The Root

Hebrews 12:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“You shall not murder.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

James 3:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

Romans 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

John 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Jeremiah 17:7-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

Psalm 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

Deuteronomy 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“‘You shall not murder.

Exodus 21:22-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

1 Peter 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.

James 4:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Hebrews 7:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

1 Timothy 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.

Colossians 2:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Ephesians 3:16-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Romans 13:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...

Romans 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 12:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

John 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Luke 19:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

[[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it. After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them. ...

Mark 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.

Matthew 27:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.

Matthew 26:52-54 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”

Matthew 18:23-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’ And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. ...

Matthew 18:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 13:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

Matthew 13:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away.

Matthew 13:3-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. ...

Matthew 12:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 5:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Matthew 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’

Hosea 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Ezekiel 33:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

Proverbs 16:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

Proverbs 6:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Psalm 139:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Judges 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

From Ephraim their root they marched down into the valley, following you, Benjamin, with your kinsmen; from Machir marched down the commanders, and from Zebulun those who bear the lieutenant's staff;

Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ...

Deuteronomy 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.

Exodus 23:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Exodus 21:12-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“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.

Genesis 9:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”