35 Bible Verses about Plea Of Innocence

and they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.

Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, “Lord, will You slay a nation, even though blameless?

Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”

Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also kept you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her.

“Remember now, who ever perished being innocent?
Or where were the upright destroyed?

“Lo, God will not reject a man of integrity,
Nor will He support the evildoers.

‘According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty,
Yet there is no deliverance from Your hand.

Should I lie concerning my right?
My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’

I shall wash my hands in innocence,
And I will go about Your altar, O Lord,

“Though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me;
Though I am guiltless, He will declare me guilty.

And Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich,
I have found wealth for myself;
In all my labors they will find in me
No iniquity, which would be sin.”

You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and uprightly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers;

Afterward when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are innocent before the Lord forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

“I was also blameless toward Him,
And I kept myself from my iniquity.

I was also blameless with Him,
And I kept myself from my iniquity.

“I am guiltless;
I do not take notice of myself;
I despise my life.

Let Him weigh me with accurate scales,
And let God know my integrity.

‘I am pure, without transgression;
I am innocent and there is no guilt in me.

“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous,
But God has taken away my right;

My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths and they have not harmed me, inasmuch as I was found innocent before Him; and also toward you, O king, I have committed no crime.”

“For you have said, ‘My teaching is pure,
And I am innocent in your eyes.’

But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity;
Redeem me, and be gracious to me.

You have tried my heart;
You have visited me by night;
You have tested me and You find nothing;
I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

Now, my father, see! Indeed, see the edge of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the edge of your robe and did not kill you, know and perceive that there is no evil or rebellion in my hands, and I have not sinned against you, though you are lying in wait for my life to take it.

The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “O my lord, the king, the iniquity is on me and my father’s house, but the king and his throne are guiltless.”

Then two hundred men went with Absalom from Jerusalem, who were invited and went innocently, and they did not know anything.

When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this Man’s blood; see to that yourselves.”

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.

After three days Paul called together those who were the leading men of the Jews, and when they came together, he began saying to them, “Brethren, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.

while Paul said in his own defense, “I have committed no offense either against the Law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”

“All who came upon them have devoured them;
And their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty,
Inasmuch as they have sinned against the Lord who is the habitation of righteousness,
Even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’

For behold what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

This is the way of an adulterous woman:
She eats and wipes her mouth,
And says, “I have done no wrong.”

Yet you said, ‘I am innocent;
Surely His anger is turned away from me.’
Behold, I will enter into judgment with you
Because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’