What Does the Bible Say About The Death Penalty?

“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.”

“He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.”

“Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last.”

“"Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.”

“He said to them, "Don't be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!”

“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”

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

“"Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?"”

“What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?”

“knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!”

“He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.”

“whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.”

“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”

“Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.”

“By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."”

“but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."”