Jeremiah 7:6

Jeremiah's Proclamation At The Gate Of The House Of Yahweh

⁵ For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor, ⁶ if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin, ⁷ then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land I gave to your fathers from generation to generation and for a very long time.'

Fatherless and the Widow

Innocent Blood

Oppress the Stranger

Other Gods

Shed Innocent Blood

Oppress Not The Stranger

Oppress The Alien

Strange Gods

Jerusalem

No

Deuteronomy 8:19

I warn you: 'If you forget Jehovah your God and worship other gods, you will perish.'

Jeremiah 2:34

You have bloodstains from innocent poor people on your clothes. You did not kill them for breaking in to your home.

Jeremiah 13:10

The people of Judah are evil and stubborn. They do not listen to me. They do whatever they want and even worship other gods. When I am finished with these people, they will be good for nothing, just like this linen belt.

Exodus 22:21-24

Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner. Remember that you were foreigners in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 6:14-15

Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

Deuteronomy 11:28

Receive the curse when you do not listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, but turn aside from the way that I command you today, by following other gods you have not known.

Deuteronomy 24:17

Do not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan. Do not take a widow's garment in pledge.

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed is he who withholds justice due an alien, orphan, and widow. The people all say: Amen.

2 Kings 21:6

He made his own son pass through fire. He burned him as an offering to Molech. He practiced reading the future; gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers. He did much evil in the eyes of Jehovah and provoked him to anger.

2 Kings 24:4

and especially because of all the innocent people he killed. Jehovah would not forgive Manasseh for that.

Job 31:13-22

If I have rejected the cause of my male or female slaves, when they brought a complaint against me

Psalm 82:3-4

Defend the weak and fatherless. Protect the rights of the oppressed and the poor.

Psalm 106:38

They shed innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land became polluted with blood.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to do evil. They hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil. Ruin and destruction are on their highways.

Jeremiah 2:30

I have punished your children without results. They did not respond to correction. You killed my prophets like a raging lion.

Jeremiah 7:5

For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor,

Jeremiah 19:4

This is because they have forsaken me. They have made this an alien place and have burned sacrifices in it to other gods. These are gods that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the blameless (innocent).'

Jeremiah 22:3-4

This is what Jehovah says: Judge fairly, and do what is right. Rescue those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Do not mistreat foreigners, orphans, or widows, and do not oppress them. Do not kill innocent people in this place.

Jeremiah 22:15-17

Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

Jeremiah 26:15

But if you put me to death, you and everyone else in Jerusalem will be guilty of murdering an innocent man. This is because everything I spoke came from Jehovah.

Jeremiah 26:23

They brought Uriah from Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim. The king executed Uriah and threw his body into the burial ground for the common people.

Lamentations 4:13

It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil doing of her priests. They have drained the blood of the upright out from her.

Ezekiel 18:6

and does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period;

Ezekiel 22:3-6

Tell it: 'This is what the Lord Jehovah says: Jerusalem, you are the city that murders people who live in you. Your time has come. You dishonor yourself with disgusting idols.

Zechariah 7:9-12

Jehovah of Hosts has spoken: Every man should execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion to his brother!

Malachi 3:5

I will approach you people for judgment! I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers and those acting fraudulently with the wages of the worker, the widow and the fatherless. I will be a speedy witness against those who swear falsely and take advantage of the stranger, and do not show me reverence, said Jehovah of Hosts.

Matthew 23:35-37

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.

Matthew 27:4

He said: I have done wrong in giving a righteous man to you.

Matthew 27:25

The people answered: Let his blood be on us, and on our children.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for the fatherless persons and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself without spot from the world.