20 Bible Verses about Responsibility For Blood Shed

lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood I will require at your hand.

If I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,'and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

"Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

They wandered, blind, through the streets; they were so defiled with blood that no one was able to touch their garments.

If one is burdened with the blood of another, he will be a fugitive until death; let no one help him.

"And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her 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, all full of lies and plunder-- no end to the prey!

saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." They said, "What is that to us? See to it yourself."

But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money."

And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!"

And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

And you shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge on Jezebel the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD.

Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!

They cried out with a loud voice, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."

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."

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