21 Bible Verses about Responsibility For Blood Shed

That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the temple and the altar.

That innocent blood be not shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be upon you.

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

Again, When a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

When I say unto the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him not warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.

Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

A man that does violence to the blood of any person shall flee to a pit; let no man help him.

Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? yea, you shall show her all her abominations.

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the victim departs not;

Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see you to that.

And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his clothes, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

And you shall smite the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.

Why should the nations say, Where is their God? let him be known among the nations in our sight by the revenging of the blood of your servants which is shed.

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great harlot, who did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

When Pilate saw that he could gain nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see you to it.

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