"Do not murder" ~ God creates with a purpose

Psalm 127:3

Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from Him.

Jeremiah 1:5

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."

1Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Psalm 139:13-14

For You created my inmost being; You knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 

Psalm 8:4-6

What is mankind that You are mindful of them, the son of man that You care for him? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of Your hands; You put everything under their feet...

Ephesians 2:10

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Genesis 1:26-27

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.

Job 32:8

But it is the spirit in a person, the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding.

Psalm 46:5

God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.

Psalm 106:37-38 

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to false gods. They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood. 

Proverbs 8:36

“But he who sins against Me injures himself; All those who hate Me love death.”

John 3:20

"For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed."

1John 3:15

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him

1John 3:12

We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

Proverbs 6:16-17

There are six things which the LORD hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him:

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood......

Genesis 4:10

“What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground."

Exodus 23:7

Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.

Genesis 9:6

"Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind."

Exodus 20:13

“You shall not murder."