SPIRITUAL MURDER / YOU DESIRE AND DO NOT HAVE SO YOU COMMIT MURDER

You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.

You want what you don't have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can't get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don't have what you want because you don't ask God for it.
James 4:2

How do you spiritually murder someone, and is it as bad as physical murder?

“Thou shalt not kill,” is how the King James Version of the Bible renders Deuteronomy, the fifth chapter, verse 17.  The New World Translation says,

“You must not murder.”  Most people think of physical murder when reading these verses, but have you ever thought about how this would apply in a spiritual sense also? Spiritually murdering someone is just as bad as physically murdering them.  In fact, I think it’s worse because the person has to continue trying to live while they are dead inside.