Bible Verses About Taking Your Own Life
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for taking your own life, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 520 votes, led by Ecclesiastes 7:17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Taking Your Own Life
Ecclesiastes 7:17108 votes
Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
1 Corinthians 6:19-2074 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians 3:1765 votes
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Genesis 9:5-659 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.
1 John 4:148 votes
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 Corinthians 6:1941 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Exodus 20:1328 votes
Thou shalt not kill.
James 1:2-419 votes
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
1 Samuel 31:3-618 votes
And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
Job 12:1016 votes
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Deuteronomy 28:47-4812 votes
Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
Mark 1:1-16:2012 votes
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
Proverbs 13:310 votes
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Galatians 6:710 votes
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
What does the Bible say about taking your own life?
Readers most often cite Ecclesiastes 7:17 on the subject of taking your own life. Across 520 votes, 14 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, 1 Corinthians 3:17, Genesis 9:5-6. This page lists all 14 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.