Bible Verses About Gun Control
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for gun control, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,250 votes, led by Ecclesiastes 9:18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Gun Control
Ecclesiastes 9:18342 votes
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Luke 22:36336 votes
Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
Luke 11:21-22300 votes
When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:
1 Samuel 13:19-22281 votes
Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
Matthew 26:52-54242 votes
Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Nehemiah 4:17-18221 votes
They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
Psalms 144:1218 votes
Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
Exodus 22:1-31162 votes
If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Numbers 31:3158 votes
And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the Lord of Midian.
Genesis 9:5-6136 votes
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
Romans 12:19136 votes
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Isaiah 10:15114 votes
Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
Exodus 21:24-2596 votes
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
1 Samuel 25:1394 votes
And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
Judges 5:886 votes
They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Genesis 4:1-2671 votes
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
1 Samuel 8:1171 votes
And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
Psalms 140:471 votes
Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
Romans 13:471 votes
For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Luke 22:35-3964 votes
And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
John 18:1-4064 votes
When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.
Leviticus 26:1-4652 votes
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.
2 Samuel 22:1-5152 votes
And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
Micah 7:4-552 votes
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
Judges 10:13-1848 votes
Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.
What does the Bible say about gun control?
Readers most often cite Ecclesiastes 9:18 on the subject of gun control. Across 5,250 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Luke 22:36, Luke 11:21-22, 1 Samuel 13:19-22. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.