35 Bible Verses about Plea Of Innocence

And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou also slay a righteous nation?

Said he not to me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart, and innocence of my hands have I done this.

And God said to him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore I suffered thee not to touch her.

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off;

Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thy hand.

Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass thy altar, O LORD:

If I justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, that also will prove me perverse.

And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found for myself substance: in all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that were sin.

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and unblamably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:

I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from my iniquity.

I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.

I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.

For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocence was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thy eyes.

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: redeem me, and be merciful to me.

Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Moreover, my father, see, yes, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.

And the woman of Tekoah said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.

And with Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem, that were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing.

When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.

Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to the righteousness which is by the law, blameless.

And it came to pass, that after three days, Paul called together the chief of the Jews. And when they were assembled, he said to them, Men, brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

Wherefore I call you to witness this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.

While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Cesar have I committed any offense.

All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

For behold this very thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what avenging! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger will turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.