'Innocence' in the Bible
Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”
Two hundred men from Jerusalem went with Absalom as invited guests, going in their innocence as they did not know anything.
The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness, rewarding me according to the degree of my innocence,
“Give me a pledge (guarantee, promise) with Yourself [acknowledge my innocence before my death];Who is there that will be my guarantor and give security for me?
He'll even deliver the guilty, who will be delivered through your innocence."
I speak from the innocence of my heart; and my lips will utter what I sincerely know.
Yahweh judges the nations. O Yahweh, vindicate me according to my innocence and according to my integrity within me.
I wash my hands in innocenceand go around Your altar, Lord,
May you punish them for their crimes; may they receive no verdict of innocence from you.
Did I purify my heartand wash my hands in innocence for nothing?
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.