'Innocent' in the Bible

Now Abimelech had not gone near her. He said, "Lord, would you really slaughter an innocent nation?

Did Abraham not say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!"

and then if he gets up and walks about outside on his staff, then the one who struck him is innocent, except he must pay for the injured person's loss of time and see to it that he is fully healed.

Keep your distance from a false charge -- do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.

We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments before the Lord our God, just as he demands."

You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

Do not blame your people Israel whom you redeemed, O Lord, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person." Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed.

In this manner you will purge out the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before the Lord.

If controversy arises between people, they should go to court for judgment. When the judges hear the case, they shall exonerate the innocent but condemn the guilty.

Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'

Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death -- we are innocent in that case! But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible.

He risked his life when he struck down the Philistine and the Lord gave all Israel a great victory. When you saw it, you were happy. So why would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?"

He said to David, "You are more innocent than I, for you have treated me well, even though I have tried to harm you!

Your conscience will not be overwhelmed with guilt for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the Lord has granted my lord success, please remember your servant."

When David later heard about this, he said, "I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the Lord of the shed blood of Abner son of Ner!

Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth?"

The Tekoan woman said to the king, "My lord the king, let any blame fall on me and on the house of my father. But let the king and his throne be innocent!"

You prove to be loyal to one who is faithful; you prove to be trustworthy to one who is innocent.

But now don't treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; make sure he has a bloody death."

May the Lord punish him for the blood he shed; behind my father David's back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he -- Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel's army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah's army.

Listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants' claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve.

In the morning he went out and stood there. Then he said to all the people, "You are innocent. I conspired against my master and killed him. But who struck down all of these men?

Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord.

Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the Lord was unwilling to forgive them.

listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants' claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve.

Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.

Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.

If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.

If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.

Upright men are appalled at this; the innocent man is troubled with the godless.

The righteous see their destruction and rejoice; the innocent mock them scornfully, saying,

he will deliver even someone who is not innocent, who will escape through the cleanness of your hands."

what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver.

For Job says, 'I am innocent, but God turns away my right.

The Lord judges the nations. Vindicate me, Lord, because I am innocent, because I am blameless, O Exalted One!

May the evil deeds of the wicked come to an end! But make the innocent secure, O righteous God, you who examine inner thoughts and motives!

He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim.

He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be upended.

As for me, because I am innocent I will see your face; when I awake you will reveal yourself to me.

I was innocent before him, and kept myself from sinning.

You prove to be loyal to one who is faithful; you prove to be trustworthy to one who is innocent.

Moreover, keep me from committing flagrant sins; do not allow such sins to control me. Then I will be blameless, and innocent of blatant rebellion.

May lying lips be silenced -- lips that speak defiantly against the innocent with arrogance and contempt!

The Lord watches over the innocent day by day and they possess a permanent inheritance.

in order to shoot down the innocent in secluded places. They shoot at him suddenly and are unafraid of retaliation.

They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.

They shed innocent blood -- the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed.

Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

If they say, "Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.

The one who acquits the guilty and the one who condemns the innocent -- both of them are an abomination to the Lord.

The one who says to the guilty, "You are innocent," peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him.

Tell the innocent it will go well with them, for they will be rewarded for what they have done.

They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.

those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.

They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.

Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop paying allegiance to other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.

I will do so because these people have rejected me and have defiled this place. They have offered sacrifices in it to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah knew anything about. They have filled it with the blood of innocent children.

The Lord says, "Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows. Do not kill innocent people in this land.

But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

But you should take careful note of this: If you put me to death, you will bring on yourselves and this city and those who live in it the guilt of murdering an innocent man. For the Lord has sent me to speak all this where you can hear it. That is the truth!"

My God sent his angel and closed the lions' mouths so that they have not harmed me, because I was found to be innocent before him. Nor have I done any harm to you, O king."

Egypt will be desolate and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence they did to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

This is what the Lord says: "Because Israel has committed three covenant transgressions -- make that four! -- I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They sold the innocent for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals.

Certainly I am aware of your many rebellious acts and your numerous sins. You torment the innocent, you take bribes, and you deny justice to the needy at the city gate.

So they cried out to the Lord, "Oh, please, Lord, don't let us die on account of this man! Don't hold us guilty of shedding innocent blood. After all, you, Lord, have done just as you pleased."

For this reason the law lacks power, and justice is never carried out. Indeed, the wicked intimidate the innocent. For this reason justice is perverted.

"I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

If you had known what this means: 'I want mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent.

saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!" But they said, "What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!"

As he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent a message to him: "Have nothing to do with that innocent man; I have suffered greatly as a result of a dream about him today."

When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, "I am innocent of this man's blood. You take care of it yourselves!"

Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he praised God and said, "Certainly this man was innocent!"

Therefore I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of you all.

Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.

For see what this very thing, this sadness as God intended, has produced in you: what eagerness, what defense of yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what deep concern, what punishment! In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.