13 Bible Verses about Killing The Innocent

This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.

"Forge a chain!For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst.

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.

You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.

But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence."

Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

"Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the LORD, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, and also for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not pardon.

Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."