35 Bible Verses about Plea Of Innocence

and they shall testify, 'Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it shed.

Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, "Lord, will you kill an innocent people?

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 you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.

"Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?

"Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.

although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?

in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'

I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O LORD,

Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

Ephraim has said, "Ah, but I am rich; I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin."

You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.

Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, "I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD for the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.

I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my guilt.

I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.

(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)

You say, 'I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.

For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;

My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm."

For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's 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 will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it.

And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, "On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father's house; let the king and his throne be guiltless."

With Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem who were invited guests, and they went in their innocence and knew nothing.

So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood;see to it yourselves."

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

After three days he called together the local leaders of the Jews, and when they had gathered, he said to them, "Brothers, 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 of you,

Paul argued in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I committed any offense."

All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, 'We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.'

For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, "I have done no wrong."

you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, 'I have not sinned.'