35 Bible Verses about Plea Of Innocence

and they shall answer and say, "Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

Did not he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself, said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this."

God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not allow you to touch her.

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

"Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, LORD;

Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin."

You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

Afterward, when David heard it, he said, "I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

I am blameless. I do not regard myself. I despise my life.

(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

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

For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me; because before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, have I done no wrong."

For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.'

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

The woman of Tekoa said to the king, "My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless."

Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they did not know anything.

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 crowd, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this man. You see to it."

concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the Jewish leaders. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

Therefore I testify to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men,

while he said in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all."

All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, "We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of righteousness, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers."

For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance. In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

"So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'

"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.'