35 Bible Verses about Plea Of Innocence
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And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen.
But Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, Lord, will You also kill a righteous nation?
Did he not say to me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is my brother. In the sincerity of my heart and innocency of my hands I have done this.
And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the sincerity of your heart. For I also withheld you from sinning against Me. Therefore I did not allow you to touch her.
Remember, please, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off?
Behold, God will not cast away the innocent, nor will He help the evildoers,
should I lie against my right? My wound cannot be cured; I am without rebellion.
I will wash my hands in innocency; so I will go around Your altar, O Jehovah,
If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me; though I am perfect, He shall declare me perverse.
And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found much wealth for myself. In all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that is sin.
You and God are witnesses how holily and justly and blamelessly we were to you who believe,
And afterward David heard, and said, My kingdom and I are guiltless before Jehovah forever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
Though I were perfect, yet I would not know my soul. I would despise my life.
You said, I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, and no iniquity is in me;
My God has sent His Angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me, because before Him purity was found in me. And also before you, O king, I have done no harm.
You have proved my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me, and You will find nothing; my thoughts do not pass beyond my mouth.
And, my father, behold! Yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand. For in that I cut off the skirt of your robe and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against you. Yet you hunt my soul to take it.
And the woman of Tekoah said to the king, My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me and on my father's house. And may the king and his throne be without guilt.
And with Absalom went two hundred called men out of Jerusalem. And they went in their honesty, and did not know anything.
But when Pilate saw that it gained nothing, but rather that a tumult was made, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. You see to it.
concerning zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in the Law, blameless.
And after three days it happened that Paul called together those being chief of the Jews. And they coming together, he said to them, Men, brothers, I did nothing against the people or customs of our fathers. I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans
Therefore I testify to you on this day that I am pure from the blood of all.
Defending himself, Paul said, Neither against the Law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I offended in anything.
All who have found them have devoured them. And their enemies said, We do not offend, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.
For behold this same thing (you being grieved according to God); how much it worked out earnestness in you; but also defense; but also indignation; but also fear; but also desire; but also zeal; but also vengeance! In everything you approved yourselves to be clear in the matter.
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no evil.
Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely His anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.