Here are some Bible verses that speak to the value and sanctity of human life:
Here are some Bible verses that speak to the value and sanctity of human life:
- Psalm 139:13-16: “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 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.”
- Isaiah 49:1: “Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.”
- Psalm 22:9-10: “Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts. On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother’s womb you have been my God.”
- Genesis 1:27: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
- Psalm 8:4-5: “What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.”
- Matthew 25:40: “And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'”
- Proverbs 6:16-17: “There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood.”
- James 3:9: “With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.”
- Exodus 20:13: “You shall not murder.”
- Romans 12:9: “Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.”