21 Bible Verses about Responsibility For Blood Shed
Most Relevant Verses
You are responsible for all the righteous blood shed on earth. That includes the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
Innocent blood will not be shed in your land that Jehovah your God gives you as an inheritance. Blood guiltiness will not be on you.
I will require your lifeblood as an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. I will demand an accounting from each man for the life of his fellow man.
If righteous people turn from living the right way and do wrong, I will make them stumble and they will die. If you do not warn them, they will die because of their sin. The right things they did will not be remembered. I will hold you responsible for their deaths.
When I tell a wicked man that he will surely die, but you do not warn him or speak out so that he can change his wicked way in order to save his life; that wicked man will die because of his sin. I will hold you responsible for his death.
Whoever sheds the blood of man will have his blood shed by man. For man was made in the image of God.
They are wandering like blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood. Men may not touch their robes.
A violent and bloodthirsty man will run to the pit; let no man help him.
Son of man will you judge? Will you judge the city of murderers (the bloodguilty)? Then tell it about all the disgusting things that it has done.
The Lord Jehovah says: 'Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
He said: I have done wrong in giving a righteous man to you.
The chief priests took the silver. They said: It is not right to put it in the Temple treasury, for it is the price of blood.
The people answered: Let his blood be on us, and on our children.
When they opposed Paul and treated him abusively he shook out his garment and said to them: Your blood is upon your own heads. I am clean. From now on I will go to the people of the nations.
You are to kill your master the king of the house of Ahab. I am punishing Jezebel for murdering my prophets and my other servants.
Why should the nations be allowed to say: Where is their God? Let us watch as the nations learn that there is punishment for shedding the blood of your servants.
They cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord, holy and true, before you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?
True and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great harlot, who corrupted the earth with her fornication. And has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Pilate saw that he could do nothing. The people were ready to cause much trouble. He took water and washed his hands in front of the people. He said: The blood of this man is not on my hands. You are responsible.
