Bible passages about the value of human life, despair, and suicide. This selection does not replace professional help: if you are struggling right now, reach out to loved ones, a doctor, or a hotline.
10 Bible passages · Father’s Blessing Bible
Exodus 20:13
You shall not murder.
Psalm 139:13–16
13 For You formed my inward parts and knitted me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows this very well. 15 My bones were not hidden from You when I was being made in secret, intricately formed in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in Your book were written all my days, the days ordained for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Psalm 34:18
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Job 3:20–26
20 Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, 21 who long for death, but it does not come, who search for it more eagerly than for hidden treasure, 22 who would rejoice to the point of exultation and be glad when they found the grave? 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in? 24 For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings pour out like water, 25 because what I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me. 26 I have no peace, no quiet, no rest; only trouble has come.
1 Kings 19:1–8
1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying: [If you are Elijah, and I am Jezebel,] may the gods deal with me, and even more, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like the life of each of them. done 3 When he saw this, he arose and fled for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. 4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is enough, Lord; take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.” 5 Then he lay down and slept under the broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.” 6 And he looked, and behold, at his head was a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again. 7 And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.” 8 And he arose and ate and drank, and strengthened by that food, he went forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
1 Corinthians 3:16–17
16 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for God's temple is holy, and you are that temple. temple
Psalm 118:17
I will not die, but live, and proclaim the works of the Lord.
Romans 8:38–39
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor rulers, neither the present nor the future, nor powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Matthew 11:28
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest;
