21 Bible Verses about Human Blood Shed

You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

"Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

And the LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.

'As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons--declares the LORD--I will repay you on this plot of ground.' Now therefore take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the LORD."

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

"O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.

You shall be fuel for the fire. Your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall be no more remembered, for I the LORD have spoken."

I will drench the land even to the mountains with your flowing blood, and the ravines will be full of you.

For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust.

To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered.

for I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the slain shall fall in her midst, by the sword that is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on earth."

From oppression and violence he redeems their life, and precious is their blood in his sight.

Thus says the Lord GOD, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,

that you may strike your feet in their blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe."

And behold, a woman who had suffered from a discharge of blood for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment,

And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years,

And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone.

And when the blood of Stephen your witness was being shed, I myself was standing by and approving and watching over the garments of those who killed him.'

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.