Bible verses about "violence" | Coverdale

⁵ For the bloude of you wherin youre soule is, wyll I requyre of the hande of all beastes: and the soule of ma wyll I requyre of mans hande, yee euery mans soule of anothers hande. ⁶ He that sheddeth mas bloude, his bloude shal be shed by man agayne, for God made man after his owne licknesse.

¹ Blessed be the LORDE my refuge, which teacheth my hades to warre, & my fyngers to fight.

⁴ for he is the minister off God for thy wealth. But yff thou do euell, then feare, for he beareth not the swerde for naughte. For he is the mynister of God, a taker of vengeaunce, to punyshe him that doth euell.

¹ Him that is weake in the faith, receaue vnto you, and trouble not the consciences.

³ Not geuen to moch wyne, no fighter, not geuen to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorrynge stryfe, abhorrynge couetousnes:

³⁰ For we knowe him that hath sayde: Vengeaunce is myne, I wil recompence, sayeth the LORDE. And agayne: The LORDE shal iudge his people.

² that they speake euell of no man, that they be no stryuers, but soft, shewynge all mekenes vnto all men.

³¹ Folowe not a wicked man, and chose none of his wayes:

¹⁸ Violence and robbery shal neuer be herde of in thy londe, nether harme and destruction with in thy borders. Thy walles shalbe called health, & thy gates the prayse of God

³⁸ Ye haue herde howe it is sayde: An eye for an eye, a toth for a toth. ³⁹ But I saye vnto you: that ye resist not euell. But whosoeuer geueth the a blowe on thy right cheke, turne to him the other also.

⁵² Then sayde Iesus vnto him: Put vp yi swerde in to his place. For all that take the swerde, shal perish with the swerde. ⁵³ Or thinkest thou that I can not praye my father now, to sende me more then twolue legions of angels? ⁵⁴ But how the shulde the scriptures be fulfylled? For thus must it be.

⁵ The LORDE seith both the rightuous and vngodly, but who so deliteth in wickednes, him his soule abhorreth.