21 Bible Verses about Human Blood Shed
Most Relevant Verses
“Do not defile the land where you are, for bloodshed defiles the land, and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
Whoever sheds man’s blood,
his blood will be shed by man,
for God made man in His image.
Then He said, “What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground!
‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘so will I repay you on this plot of land’—this is the Lord’s declaration. So now, according to the word of the Lord, pick him up and throw him on the plot of land.”
They poured out their blood
like water all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.
So now you are cursed, alienated, from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.
You will be fuel for the fire.
Your blood will be spilled in the land.
You will not be remembered,
for I, Yahweh, have spoken.”
I will drench the land
with the flow of your blood,
even to the mountains;
the ravines will be filled with your gore.
For the blood she shed is still within her.
She put it out on the bare rock;
she didn’t pour it on the ground
to cover it with dust.
In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance,
I have put her blood on the bare rock,
so that it would not be covered.
I will send a plague against her
and bloodshed in her streets;
the slain will fall within her,
while the sword is against her on every side.
Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
and the blood of prophets and saints,
and of all those slaughtered on earth,
was found in you.
He will redeem them from oppression and violence,
for their lives are precious in his sight.
This is what the Lord God says: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness exposed by your acts of prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your children that you gave to them,
so that your foot may wade in blood
and your dogs’ tongues may have their share
from the enemies.”
Just then, a woman who had suffered from bleeding for 12 years approached from behind and touched the tassel on His robe,
A woman suffering from bleeding for 12 years, who had spent all she had on doctors yet could not be healed by any,
And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I was standing by and approving, and I guarded the clothes of those who killed him.’
to Jesus (mediator of a new covenant), and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.
