21 Bible Verses about Responsibility For Blood Shed
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So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
In this way, innocent blood will not be shed, and you will not become guilty of bloodshed in the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
I will require the life of every animal and every man for your life and your blood. I will require the life of each man’s brother for a man’s life.
Now if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, and I put a stumbling block in front of him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die because of his sin and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. Yet I will hold you responsible for his blood.
If I say to the wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him—you don’t speak out to warn him about his wicked way in order to save his life—that wicked person will die for his iniquity. Yet I will hold you responsible for his blood.
Whoever sheds man’s blood,
his blood will be shed by man,
for God made man in His image.
נ NunBlind, they stumbled in the streets,
defiled by this blood,
so that no one dared
to touch their garments.
A man burdened by bloodguilt
will be a fugitive until death.
Let no one help him.
“As for you, son of man, will you pass judgment? Will you pass judgment against the city of blood? Then explain all her detestable practices to her.
Therefore, this is what the Lord God says:
Woe to the city of bloodshed!
I Myself will make the pile of kindling large.
“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said.
“What’s that to us?” they said. “See to it yourself!”
The chief priests took the silver and said, “It’s not lawful to put it into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.”
All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook his robe and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
You are to strike down the house of your master Ahab so that I may avenge the blood shed by the hand of Jezebel—the blood of My servants the prophets and of all the servants of the Lord.
Why should the nations ask,
“Where is their God?”
Before our eyes,
let vengeance for the shed blood of Your servants
be known among the nations.
They cried out with a loud voice: “Lord, the One who is holy and true, how long until You judge and avenge our blood from those who live on the earth?”
because His judgments are true and righteous,
because He has judged the notorious prostitute
who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality;
and He has avenged the blood of His slaves
that was on her hands.
When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was starting instead, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. See to it yourselves!”
Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of everyone’s blood,
