Genesis 37:26

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David’s house.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

“ ‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.

Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

“Yahweh of Armies says: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”

Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.

then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.

You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.

It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”

So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.”

Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”

For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.”

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you?

Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

“Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”

“ ‘If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.

“ ‘A man or a woman that is a medium or is a wizard shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones. Their blood shall be upon themselves.’ ”

If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

Now, behold, I know that you will surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand.

Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”

He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”

But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey.” So he stopped, and didn’t kill them among their brothers.

“ ‘ “For her blood is in the middle of her. She set it on the bare rock. She didn’t pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.