21 Bible Verses about Responsibility For Blood Shed

so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, and bloodguiltiness be on you.

Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

When I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

“Whoever sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For in the image of God
He made man.

They wandered, blind, in the streets;
They were defiled with blood
So that no one could touch their garments.

A man who is laden with the guilt of human blood
Will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him.

“And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.

‘Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
“Woe to the bloody city!
I also will make the pile great.

Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage;
Her prey never departs.

saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? See to that yourself!”

The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, “It is not lawful to put them into the temple treasury, since it is the price of blood.”

And all the people said, “His blood shall be on us and on our children!”

But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezebel.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let there be known among the nations in our sight,
Vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been shed.

and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

because His judgments are true and righteous; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and He has avenged the blood of His bond-servants on her.”

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.”

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