44 Verses About Innocent from 14 Books

1 Samuel 19:5

for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?"

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

2 Kings 24:4

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and the LORD would not pardon.

Deuteronomy 19:10

that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

Deuteronomy 19:13

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

Deuteronomy 21:8

Forgive, the LORD, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood [to remain] in the midst of your people Israel." The blood shall be forgiven them.

Deuteronomy 21:9

So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD.



Deuteronomy 27:25

'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Additions to Esther 13:5

"Oftentimes also, the pleasing words of those who are trusted to manage their friends' affairs, have caused many who are in authority to be partakers of innocent blood and have enwrapped them in remediless calamities--

Exodus 23:7

"Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

Isaiah 29:21

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Jeremiah 2:34

Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.



Jeremiah 2:35

"Yet you said, 'I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.' "Behold, I will judge you, because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

Jeremiah 7:6

if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

Jeremiah 19:4

Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the LORD: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Jeremiah 26:15

Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for of a truth the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.

Job 4:7

"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?



Job 9:23

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Job 9:28

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

Job 17:8

Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

Job 22:19

The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

Job 22:30

He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

Job 27:17

he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Job 33:9

'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.



Joel 3:19

Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Jonah 1:14

Therefore they cried to the LORD, and said, "We beg you, the LORD, we beg you, don't let us die for this man's life, and don't lay on us innocent blood; for you, the LORD, have done as it pleased you."

Matthew 27:4

saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

Matthew 27:24

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

Proverbs 18:5

To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.



Proverbs 21:8

The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

Psalms 10:8

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

Psalms 15:5

he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken. A Poem by David.

Psalms 19:13

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

Psalms 64:4

to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

Psalms 94:21

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

Psalms 106:38

They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.

Romans 16:18

For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Romans 16:19

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.





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