13 Bible Verses about Killing The Innocent

For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

Make 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 his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

In you are men that slander to shed blood: and in you they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of you they commit lewdness.

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD.

You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Because they have forsaken me, and have profaned this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did; And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

As it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.