'Innocent' in the Bible

"Pay attention, now! I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as cunning as serpents and as innocent as doves.

Or haven’t you read in the Law that on Sabbath days the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and are innocent?

If you had known what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent.

that all the innocent blood shed upon earth may come on you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah whom you murdered between the Sanctuary and the altar.

Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

As he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent a message to him: "Have nothing to do with that innocent man; I have suffered greatly as a result of a dream about him today."

When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, 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.

Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he began praising God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent.”

But when they began to oppose him and insult him, he shook out his clothes in protest and told them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles."

Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of everyone’s blood,

After they had interrogated me, they were ready to release me because I was not guilty of any offense deserving death.

For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

The report of your obedience has reached everyone. Therefore I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good, yet innocent about what is evil.

See what great earnestness godly sorrow has produced in you! How ready you are to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how full of longing and enthusiasm, how eager to seek justice! In every way you have demonstrated that you are innocent in this matter.

so that you may be blameless and innocent, God's children without any faults among a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world

For this is the kind of high priest we need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

You have condemned and have put to death the righteous man; he offers you no resistance.

For the Messiah also suffered for sins once for all, an innocent person for the guilty, so that he could bring you to God. He was put to death in a mortal body but was brought to life by the Spirit,