21 Bible Verses about Responsibility For Blood Shed

so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

so that innocent blood may not be shed in your land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, and blood may not be on you.

and surely the blood of your lives will I require. At the hand of every animal 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.

And when the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and when I lay a stumbling block 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 I will require at your hand.

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

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

they reeled blind in the streets; they are defiled with blood, so that not any can touch their clothes.

A man who is pressed down with the blood of a soul shall flee to the pit; do not let them uphold him.

And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? And you shall make her know all her abominations.

So the Lord Jehovah says this: Woe to the bloody city! I will even heap on the pile.

Woe to the bloody city! It is a lie, and full of plunder; the prey is not withdrawn.

saying, I have sinned, betraying innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? You see 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 all the people answered and said, Let His blood be on us and on our children.

And they resisting and blaspheming, shaking his garment, he said to them, Your blood is on your own heads. I am pure from it. From now on I will go to the nations.

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

Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let Him be known among the nations before our eyes by the revenging of the blood of Your servants which is shed.

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, Until when, Master, holy and true, do You not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?

For true and righteous are His judgments. For He has judged the great harlot who defiled the earth with her fornication, and He has avenged the blood of His servants out of her hand.

But when Pilate saw that it gained nothing, but rather that a tumult was made, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. You see to it.

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