Genesis 1:26 – Created in God’s Image
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
Exodus 20:13 – You Shall Not Murder
You shall not murder.
Psalm 139:13-16 – Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Proverbs 24:11-12 – Rescuing Those Being Led Away to Death
Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each person according to what they have done?
Matthew 5:21-22 – Murder and Anger
“You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.”
Matthew 7:12 – Golden Rule
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 22:37-39 – Love Your Neighbor
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
Mark 12:30-31 – Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.
John 3:16 – God’s Love for the World
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 10:10 – Abundant Life
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Acts 17:25 – God Gives Life and Breath
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
Romans 12:10 – Honor One Another
Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
Romans 13:9-10 – Love Fulfills the Law
The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 – God’s Temple
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 – You are not your own
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
Galatians 5:14 – The Entire Law is Fulfilled in Love
For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Ephesians 4:32 – Be Kind and Compassionate
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Ephesians 6:1-3 – Honor Your Parents
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—”so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”
Philippians 2:3-4 – Consider Others Better Than Yourself
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
Hebrews 13:2 – Show Hospitality to Strangers
Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.
James 1:19-20 – Be Slow to Anger
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
James 2:8-9 – Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.
Also Read: Bible Verses About Humanity
1 Peter 3:8-9 – Live in Harmony
Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
1 John 3:15 – Hatred Leads to Death
Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
1 John 4:11 – Love One Another
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:20-21 – Love Your Brother
Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
Leviticus 19:18 – Love Your Neighbor
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
Numbers 35:33 – The Land Must Not be Defiled
Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Deuteronomy 5:17 – You Shall Not Murder
You shall not murder.
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 – Choose Life
This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
2 Samuel 1:12 – Mourning for the Dead
They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the Lord and for the nation of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
Proverbs 14:21 – Show Compassion to the Poor
Whoever despises their neighbor sins, but blessed is the one who is kind to the needy.
Proverbs 24:17-18 – Do Not Gloat Over the Misfortune of Others
Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice, or the Lord will see and disapprove and turn his wrath away from them.
Isaiah 49:15 – God Remembers and Has Compassion
Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
Jeremiah 22:3 – Do What is Just and Right
This is what the Lord says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Matthew 16:24 – These Things The Lord Hates
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”
Matthew 25:35-36 – Caring for Others
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.
Galatians 6:2 – Bear One Another’s Burdens
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Colossians 3:12-14 – Clothe Yourselves with Compassion
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
James 1:27 – Care for Orphans and Widows
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Proverbs 12:10 – The Compassion of the Wicked is Cruel
The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.
Psalms 127:3 – Children are a Heritage from the Lord
Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him.
Job 31:15 – Did not he who made me in the womb make them?
Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?
Jeremiah 1:5 – Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Psalm 22:10 – From my mother’s womb, you have been my God
From birth I was cast on you; from my mother’s womb, you have been my God.
Proverbs 31:8-9 – Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.