Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Bible References

And they

Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips speak lies, your tongue muttereth unrighteousness:
Jeremiah 22:17
But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it.
Lamentations 4:13
It is for the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the righteous in the midst of her.
Ezekiel 9:9
And he said unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness; for they say, Jehovah hath forsaken the earth, and Jehovah seeth not.
Ezekiel 22:6
Behold, the princes of Israel have been in thee to shed blood, each according to his power.
Matthew 23:31
So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I wondered, seeing her, with great wonder.

Their thoughts

Proverbs 15:26
The thoughts of the evil man are an abomination to Jehovah; but pure words are pleasant.
Proverbs 24:9
The purpose of folly is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to men.
Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Acts 8:20
And Peter said to him, Thy money go with thee to destruction, because thou hast thought that the gift of God can be obtained by money.

Wasting

Isaiah 60:18
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Romans 3:16
ruin and misery are in their ways,

General references

Deuteronomy 19:10
that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and blood come not upon thee.
Proverbs 1:16
for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
Isaiah 57:12
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; and they shall not profit thee.
Acts 24:9
And the Jews also joined in pressing the matter against Paul, saying that these things were so.
Romans 3:15
swift their feet to shed blood;