'Innocent' in the Bible

Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

Forgive, O Jehovah, thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and suffer not innocent blood to remain in the midst of thy people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

So shalt thou put away the innocent blood from the midst of thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

Cursed be he that taketh a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

for he put his life in his hand, and smote the Philistine, and Jehovah wrought a great victory for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice; wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah.

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Jehovah would not pardon.

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

The righteous see it, and are glad; And the innocent laugh them to scorn,

He will deliver even him that is not innocent: Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.

He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.

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

He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless.

He that putteth not out his money to interest, Nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.

And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.

If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: thou didst not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.

Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Only know ye for certain that, if ye put me to death, ye will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof; for of a truth Jehovah hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Wherefore they cried unto Jehovah, and said, We beseech thee, O Jehovah, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood; for thou, O Jehovah, hast done as it pleased thee.