'Blood' in the Bible

And Jesus answering said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood has not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.

and ye say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, that shed for many for remission of sins.

saying, I have sinned in having delivered up guiltless blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

And the chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, It is not lawful to cast them into the Corban, since it is the price of blood.

And Pilate, seeing that it availed nothing, but that rather a tumult was arising, having taken water, washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this righteous one: see ye to it.

And all the people answering said, His blood be on us and on our children.

And a certain woman who had had a flux of blood twelve years,

And immediately her fountain of blood was dried up, and she knew in her body that she was cured from the scourge.

And he said to them, This is my blood, that of the new covenant, that shed for many.

And a woman who had a flux of blood since twelve years, who, having spent all her living on physicians, could not be cured by any one,

coming up behind, touched the hem of his garment, and immediately her flux of blood stopped.

that the blood of all the prophets which has been poured out from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yea, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.

Now at the same time there were present some who told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with that of their sacrifices.

In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

And being in conflict he prayed more intently. And his sweat became as great drops of blood, falling down upon the earth.

who have been born, not of blood, nor of flesh's will, nor of man's will, but of God.

Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Unless ye shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of man, and drunk his blood, ye have no life in yourselves.

He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life eternal, and I will raise him up at the last day:

for my flesh is truly food and my blood is truly drink.

He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me and I in him.

but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water.

And it was known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own dialect Aceldama; that is, field of blood.)

And I will give wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:

the sun shall be changed to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and gloriously appearing day of the Lord come.

saying, We strictly enjoined you not to teach in this name: and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and purpose to bring upon us the blood of this man.

but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.

and has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, having determined ordained times and the boundaries of their dwelling,

But as they opposed and spoke injuriously, he shook his clothes, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own head: I am pure; from henceforth I will go to the nations.

Wherefore I witness to you this day, that I am clean from the blood of all,

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.

But concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, deciding that they should observe no such thing, only to keep themselves both from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.

and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was shed, I also myself was standing by and consenting, and kept the clothes of them who killed him.

swift their feet to shed blood;

whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

Much rather therefore, having been now justified in the power of his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of the Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of the Christ?

In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me.

So that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord.

But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God's kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruptibility.

was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I may announce him as glad tidings among the nations, immediately I took not counsel with flesh and blood,

in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace;

but now in Christ Jesus ye who once were afar off are become nigh by the blood of the Christ.

because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual power of wickedness in the heavenlies.

and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.

Since therefore the children partake of blood and flesh, he also, in like manner, took part in the same, that through death he might annul him who has the might of death, that is, the devil;

but into the second, the high priest only, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people:

nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, has entered in once for all into the holy of holies, having found an eternal redemption.

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and a heifer's ashes sprinkling the defiled, sanctifies for the purity of the flesh,

how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship the living God?

Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood.

For every commandment having been spoken according to the law by Moses to all the people; having taken the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined to you.

And the tabernacle too and all the vessels of service he sprinkled in like manner with blood;

and almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and without blood-shedding there is no remission.

nor in order that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own;

For blood of bulls and goats is incapable of taking away sins.

Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the holy of holies by the blood of Jesus,

of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

By faith he celebrated the passover and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.

and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel.

for of those beasts whose blood is carried as sacrifices for sin into the holy of holies by the high priest, of these the bodies are burned outside the camp.

Wherefore also Jesus, that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate:

But the God of peace, who brought again from among the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, in the power of the blood of the eternal covenant,

elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by sanctification of the Spirit, unto the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

but by precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, the blood of Christ,

But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.

This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus the Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, for the Spirit is the truth.

the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three agree in one.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and has washed us from our sins in his blood,

And they sing a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals; because thou hast been slain, and hast redeemed to God, by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O sovereign Ruler, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the earth?

And I saw when it opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as hair sackcloth, and the whole moon became as blood,

And I said to him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they who come out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

And the first sounded his trumpet: and there was hail and fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth; and the third part of the earth was burnt up, and the third part of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

And the second angel sounded his trumpet: and as a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea became blood;

These have power to shut the heaven that no rain may fall during the days of their prophecy; and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth as often as they will with every plague.

and they have overcome him by reason of the blood of the Lamb, and by reason of the word of their testimony, and have not loved their life even unto death.

and the wine-press was trodden without the city, and blood went out of the wine-press to the bits of the horses for a thousand six hundred stadia.

And the second poured out his bowl on the sea; and it became blood, as of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea.

And the third poured out his bowl on the rivers, and on the fountains of waters; and they became blood.

for they have poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; they are worthy.

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I wondered, seeing her, with great wonder.

And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all the slain upon the earth.

for true and righteous are his judgments; for he has judged the great harlot which corrupted the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his bondmen at her hand.

and he is clothed with a garment dipped in blood; and his name is called The Word of God.