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To me it means, if you do bad things karma will come for you.
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You will be judged and condemned in the way that you judge and condemn others.
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If you characteristically deal with conflict in a violent way, you will ultimately meet a violent end, because violence is what you typically attract.
Jesus said it. This phrase comes from Matthew 26:52 in the Bible.
It means that if you are always fighting that what's you will do and you will also die because you fight.
It's a Biblical verse: 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. He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.
Die by the Sword happened in 1998.
Die by the Sword was created on 1998-02-28.
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Gunsmoke - 1955 Who Lives by the Sword 2-34 was released on: USA: 18 May 1957
Zorro - 1990 He Who Lives by the Sword 2-5 was released on: USA: 12 October 1990
"By the sword" means by force.
Matthew 26:52 [to Peter] "Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword."
There is a saying, "only the good die young" so probably not, but mean people have sadder, less fulfilling lives for sure.
Thomas Sword Good was born in 1789.