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It is often associated with righteousness and moral integrity. In the original Hebrew and Greek texts, words such as "naqiy" (נָקִי) in Hebrew and "akakos" (ἄκακος) in Greek are used to convey the idea of innocence. Old Testament References: In the Old Testament, innocence is frequently linked to justice and the protection of the blameless. For example, in <a href="/exodus/23-7.htm">Exodus 23:7</a>, God commands, "Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty" . This verse underscores the importance of safeguarding the innocent and ensuring justice. The Psalms often reflect a plea for divine protection and vindication of the innocent. <a href="/psalms/26-6.htm">Psalm 26:6</a> states, "I wash my hands in innocence and go around Your altar, O LORD" , illustrating a desire for purity and acceptance before God. New Testament References: In the New Testament, innocence is exemplified in the teachings of Jesus and the apostles. Jesus emphasizes the value of childlike innocence in <a href="/matthew/18-3.htm">Matthew 18:3</a>, saying, "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven" . This highlights the importance of humility and purity of heart. The concept of innocence is also evident in the trial and crucifixion of Jesus. Pontius Pilate, recognizing Jesus' innocence, declares in <a href="/matthew/27-24.htm">Matthew 27:24</a>, "I am innocent of this man’s blood. You bear the responsibility" . Despite this acknowledgment, Jesus is unjustly condemned, fulfilling the prophecy of the suffering servant in <a href="/bsb/isaiah/53.htm">Isaiah 53</a>. Theological Significance: Innocence in the Bible is not merely an absence of wrongdoing but is often associated with a positive state of righteousness and moral integrity. It is a quality that believers are encouraged to pursue, as seen in <a href="/philippians/2-15.htm">Philippians 2:15</a>, "so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world" . Theologically, innocence is also tied to the doctrine of original sin and the need for redemption. While humanity is born into sin, the innocence of Christ provides the means for atonement and reconciliation with God. Through faith in Jesus, believers are justified and made innocent before God, as expressed in <a href="/romans/5-9.htm">Romans 5:9</a>, "Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!" . Practical Application: Believers are called to live lives marked by innocence and integrity, reflecting the character of Christ. This involves a commitment to truth, justice, and moral purity in all aspects of life. The pursuit of innocence is not only a personal endeavor but also a communal responsibility, as the church seeks to uphold and protect the innocent within society.<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (a.) Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.2. (a.) Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright.3. (a.) Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged.4. (a.) Simple; artless; foolish.5. (a.) Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade.6. (a.) Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation.7. (n.) An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin.8. (n.) An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot.<a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div>INNOCENCE; INNOCENCY; INNOCENTin'-o-sens, in'-o-sen-si, in'-o-sent (zakhu, niqqayon, chinnam, chaph, naqi; athoos): the King James Version and the American Standard Revised Version have innocency in <a href="/genesis/20-5.htm">Genesis 20:5</a> <a href="/psalms/26-6.htm">Psalm 26:6</a>; <a href="/psalms/73-13.htm">Psalm 73:13</a> <a href="/daniel/6-22.htm">Daniel 6:22</a> <a href="/hosea/8-5.htm">Hosea 8:5</a>. In Daniel the Hebrew is zakhu, and the innocence expressed is the absence of the guilt of disloyalty to God. In all the other places the Hebrew is niqqayon, and the innocence expressed is the absence of pollution, Hosea having reference to the pollution of idolatry, and the other passages presenting the cleansing under the figure of washing hands. the King James Version has innocent not fewer than 40 times. In one place (<a href="/1_kings/2-31.htm">1 Kings 2:31</a>) the Hebrew is chinnam, meaning "undeserved," or "without cause," and, accordingly, the American Standard Revised Version, instead of "innocent blood. shed," has "blood. shed without cause." In another place (<a href="/job/33-9.htm">Job 33:9</a>) the Hebrew is chaph, meaning "scraped," or "polished," therefore "clean," and refers to moral purity. In all the other places the Hebrew is naqi, or its cognates, and the idea is doubtless the absence of pollution. In more than half the passages "innocent" is connected with blood, as "blood of the innocent," or simply "innocent blood." In some places there is the idea of the Divine acquittal, or forgiveness, as in <a href="/job/9-28.htm">Job 9:28</a>: "I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent" (compare <a href="/job/10-14.htm">Job 10:14</a>, where the same Hebrew word is used). The New Testament has "innocent" twice in connection with blood-"innocent blood," and "innocent of the blood" (<a href="/matthew/27-4.htm">Matthew 27:4, 24</a>). E. J. Forrester<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/1342.htm">1342. dikaios -- correct, righteous, by impl. innocent</a> ... innocent. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: dikaios Phonetic Spelling: (dik'-ah-yos) Short Definition: just, righteous, impartial Definition: just ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1342.htm - 8k<a href="/greek/172.htm">172. akakos -- guileless</a> ... guileless. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: akakos Phonetic Spelling: (ak'-ak-os) Short Definition: innocent, guileless, simple Definition: innocent ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/172.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/185.htm">185. akeraios -- unmixed, pure</a> ... pure. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: akeraios Phonetic Spelling: (ak-er'-ah-yos) Short Definition: simple, unsophisticated, innocent Definition: ( ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/185.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/121.htm">121. athoos -- unpunished</a> ... of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: athoos Phonetic Spelling: (ath'-o-os) Short Definition: guiltless Definition: (sometimes: unpunished), guiltless, innocent ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/121.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/338.htm">338. anaitios -- guiltless</a> ... guiltless. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: anaitios Phonetic Spelling: (an-ah'-ee-tee-os) Short Definition: guiltless Definition: guiltless, innocent ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/338.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/53.htm">53. hagnos -- free from ceremonial defilement, holy, sacred</a> ... Word Origin from the same as hagios Definition free from ceremonial defilement, holy, sacred NASB Word Usage chaste (1), free from sin (1), innocent (1), pure ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/53.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/2513.htm">2513. katharos -- clean (adjective)</a> ... os') Short Definition: clean, pure, unstained Definition: clean, pure, unstained, either literally or ceremonially or spiritually; guiltless, innocent, upright ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2513.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/1344.htm">1344. dikaioo -- to show to be righteous, declare righteous</a> ... free, justify, be righteous. From dikaios; to render (ie Show or regard as) just or innocent -- free, justify(-ier), be righteous. see GREEK dikaios. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1344.htm - 9k<a href="/greek/1349.htm">1349. dike -- right (as self-evident), justice (the principle, a ...</a> ... especially a which declares someone approved or disapproved; a judgment (just finding) that regards someone (something) as "guilty" or "innocent." See 1343 (). ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1349.htm - 7k<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/2643.htm">2643. chaph -- clean</a> ... 2642, 2643. chaph. 2644 . clean. Transliteration: chaph Phonetic Spelling: (khaf) Short Definition: innocent. Word ... 1). innocent. ... /hebrew/2643.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/5355.htm">5355. naqiy -- clean, free from, exempt</a> ... naw-kee') Short Definition: blameless. blameless, clean, clear, exempted, free, guiltless, innocent Or naqiyi (Joel 'eb: 'ibchah; Jonah ... /hebrew/5355.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/5352.htm">5352. naqah -- to be empty or clean</a> ... completely free (1), completely free from punishment (1), deserted (1), free (4), free from punishment (1), go unpunished (8), immune (1), innocent (1), leave ... /hebrew/5352.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/2600.htm">2600. chinnam -- out of favor</a> ... payment (1). without a cost, free, causeless, to cost nothing, freely, innocent, in vain. From chen; gratis, ie Devoid of cost, reason ... /hebrew/2600.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/1818.htm">1818. dam -- blood</a> ... 1), lifeblood* (2). bloody innocent. From damam (compare 'adam); blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal ... /hebrew/1818.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/5355b.htm">5355b. naqi -- innocency</a> ... innocency. Transliteration: naqi Short Definition: innocent. Word Origin from naqah Definition innocency NASB Word Usage innocent (2). 5355a, 5355b. ... /hebrew/5355b.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/5355a.htm">5355a. naqi -- clean, free from, exempt</a> ... 5355, 5355a. naqi. 5355b . clean, free from, exempt. Transliteration: naqi Short Definition: innocent. Word Origin from naqah Definition ... /hebrew/5355a.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/2136.htm">2136. zaku -- purity, innocence</a> ... 2135, 2136. zaku. 2137 . purity, innocence. Transliteration: zaku Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-koo') Short Definition: innocent. Word ... /hebrew/2136.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/6662.htm">6662. tsaddiq -- just, righteous</a> ... Word Origin from the same as tsedeq Definition just, righteous NASB Word Usage blameless (1), innocent (1), just (5), man that the righteous (1), one in the ... /hebrew/6662.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/1249.htm">1249. bar -- pure, clean</a> ... Word Origin from barar Definition pure, clean NASB Word Usage clean (1), innocent (1), pure (4), who are pure (1). choice, clean, clear, pure. ... /hebrew/1249.htm - 6k<a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><a href="/library/watts/divine_songs_for_children/innocent_play.htm">Innocent Play.</a> ... Innocent Play. ... But Thomas and William, and such pretty names, Should be cleanly and harmless as doves, or as lambs, Those lovely sweet innocent creatures. ... //christianbookshelf.org/watts/divine songs for children/innocent play.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_it_is_lawful_to_9.htm">Whether it is Lawful to Kill the Innocent?</a> ... OF MURDER (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether it is lawful to kill the innocent? Objection 1: It would seem that in some cases it is lawful to kill the innocent. ... //christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether it is lawful to 9.htm<a href="/library/watts/divine_and_moral_songs/song_2_innocent_play.htm">Song 2. Innocent Play.</a> ... Divine Songs Song 2. Innocent play. Innocent play. 11,11,8,11,11,8. ... Should be cleanly and harmless as doves or as lambs,. Those lovely sweet innocent creatures. ... //christianbookshelf.org/watts/divine and moral songs/song 2 innocent play.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_penance_can_be_in.htm">Whether Penance Can be in the Innocent?</a> ... OF THOSE WHO RECEIVE THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE (THREE ARTICLES) Whether penance can be in the innocent? ... But the innocent do not deserve punishment. ... //christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether penance can be in.htm<a href="/library/medley/the_church_and_the_empire/chapter_ix_innocent_iii.htm">Innocent iii</a> ... The Church and the Empire CHAPTER IX INNOCENT III. [Sidenote: The new Pope.] Celestine III died less than four months after the Emperor ... /.../medley/the church and the empire/chapter ix innocent iii.htm<a href="/library/chrysostom/on_the_priesthood/to_the_beloved_brother_john.htm">To the Beloved Brother John, Innocent.</a> ... to the beloved brother john, innocent. Although the innocent man ought to expect all good things, and to crave mercy from God, nevertheless ... /.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/to the beloved brother john.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_innocent_is_more.htm">Whether the Innocent is More Bound to Give Thanks to God than the ...</a> ... OF THANKFULNESS OR GRATITUDE (SIX ARTICLES) Whether the innocent is more bound to give thanks to God than the penitent? Objection ... /.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the innocent is more.htm<a href="/library/chrysostom/on_the_priesthood/innocent_bishop_to_presbyters_and.htm">Innocent, Bishop, to Presbyters and Deacons, and to all the Clergy ...</a> ... innocent, bishop, to presbyters and deacons, and to all the clergy and people of the church of constantinople, the brethren beloved who are subject to the ... /.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/innocent bishop to presbyters and.htm<a href="/library/chrysostom/on_the_priesthood/to_innocent_bishop_of_rome.htm">To Innocent, Bishop of Rome, Greeting in the Lord.</a> ... to innocent, bishop of rome, greeting in the lord. Our body it is true is settled in one place, but the pinion of love wings its ... /.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/to innocent bishop of rome.htm<a href="/library/basil/basil_letters_and_select_works/letter_lxxxi_to_bishop_innocent.htm">Letter Lxxxi. To Bishop Innocent.</a> ... TOU AGIOU BAChILEIOU PERI TOU PNEUMATOCh BIBLION. Letter LXXXI. To Bishop Innocent. ... [2278] cf. Letter l. The see of this Innocent is unknown. cf. Letter lxxxi. ... /.../basil/basil letters and select works/letter lxxxi to bishop innocent.htm<a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/i/innocent.htm">Innocent (97 Occurrences)</a> ... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy. ... /i/innocent.htm - 37k<a href="/topical/i/innocency.htm">Innocency (5 Occurrences)</a> ... (n.) Innocence. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. INNOCENCE; INNOCENCY; INNOCENT. ... the King James Version has innocent not fewer than 40 times. ... /i/innocency.htm - 10k<a href="/topical/i/innocence.htm">Innocence (10 Occurrences)</a> ... 1. (n.) The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or injurious; harmlessness. ... INNOCENCE; INNOCENCY; INNOCENT. ... /i/innocence.htm - 12k<a href="/topical/s/shedding.htm">Shedding (23 Occurrences)</a> ... Deuteronomy 19:13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you. (See NIV). ... /s/shedding.htm - 14k<a href="/topical/b/bribe.htm">Bribe (27 Occurrences)</a> ... Deuteronomy 27:25 'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' All the people shall say,'Amen.' (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV). ... /b/bribe.htm - 15k<a href="/topical/g/guiltless.htm">Guiltless (29 Occurrences)</a> ... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Free from guilt; innocent. ... (See NAS). Job 9:23 If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent. ... /g/guiltless.htm - 15k<a href="/topical/s/shed.htm">Shed (73 Occurrences)</a> ... Deuteronomy 19:10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you. ... /s/shed.htm - 32k<a href="/topical/l/laugh.htm">Laugh (23 Occurrences)</a> ... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV). Job 9:23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. (KJV WBS YLT). ... /l/laugh.htm - 13k<a href="/topical/i/innocents.htm">Innocents (2 Occurrences)</a> ... Cyprian (died 258 AD) says: "That it might be manifest that they who are slain for Christ's sake are innocent, innocent infancy was put to death for his name's ... /i/innocents.htm - 20k<a href="/topical/i/innocently.htm">Innocently (1 Occurrence)</a> ... Noah Webster's Dictionary (adv.) In an innocent manner. Multi-Version Concordance Innocently (1 Occurrence). 2 Samuel 15:11 Two hundred ... /i/innocently.htm - 6k<a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/innocent-suffer.html">Why does God allow the innocent to suffer? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/David-Bathsheba-child.html">Why did God punish David and Bathsheba's innocent child with death? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/wise-serpents-harmless-doves.html">What does it mean to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves (Matthew 10:16)? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://clyx.com/term/innocent.htm">Innocent: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a> <a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div>Innocent (97 Occurrences)<a href="/matthew/10-16.htm">Matthew 10:16</a> "Remember it is I who am sending you out, as sheep into the midst of wolves; prove yourselves as sagacious as serpents, and as innocent as doves. (WEY NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/matthew/12-5.htm">Matthew 12:5</a> Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless? (See NAS NIV)<a href="/matthew/12-7.htm">Matthew 12:7</a> But if you had known what this means,'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless. (See NAS NIV)<a href="/matthew/23-35.htm">Matthew 23:35</a> 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. (WEY RSV)<a href="/matthew/27-4.htm">Matthew 27:4</a> saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it." (WEB KJV WEY ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/matthew/27-19.htm">Matthew 27:19</a> While he was sitting on the tribunal a message came to him from his wife. "Have nothing to do with that innocent man," she said, "for during the night I have suffered terribly in a dream through him." (WEY NIV)<a href="/matthew/27-24.htm">Matthew 27:24</a> So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it." (WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/luke/23-47.htm">Luke 23:47</a> The Captain, seeing what had happened, gave glory to God, saying, "Beyond question this man was innocent." (WEY NAS RSV)<a href="/acts/18-6.htm">Acts 18:6</a> When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!" (See RSV)<a href="/acts/20-26.htm">Acts 20:26</a> Therefore I testify to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men, (See NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/romans/16-18.htm">Romans 16:18</a> For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent. things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; onyx stones, and stones (WEB ASV)<a href="/romans/16-19.htm">Romans 16:19</a> For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil. (WEB NAS NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/4-4.htm">1 Corinthians 4:4</a> For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. (See NIV)<a href="/2_corinthians/7-11.htm">2 Corinthians 7:11</a> For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter. (See NAS NIV)<a href="/philippians/2-15.htm">Philippians 2:15</a> that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world, (See NAS RSV)<a href="/hebrews/7-26.htm">Hebrews 7:26</a> For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens, (See NAS)<a href="/james/5-6.htm">James 5:6</a> You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you. (See NIV)<a href="/1_peter/3-18.htm">1 Peter 3:18</a> because Christ also once for all died for sins, the innocent One for the guilty many, in order to bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, (WEY)<a href="/genesis/20-4.htm">Genesis 20:4</a> Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation? (See RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/44-10.htm">Genesis 44:10</a> He said, "Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you will be blameless." (See NAS)<a href="/exodus/23-7.htm">Exodus 23:7</a> "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/numbers/5-31.htm">Numbers 5:31</a> The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.'" (See NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/19-10.htm">Deuteronomy 19:10</a> that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/19-13.htm">Deuteronomy 19:13</a> Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/21-8.htm">Deuteronomy 21:8</a> Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood to remain in the midst of your people Israel." The blood shall be forgiven them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/21-9.htm">Deuteronomy 21:9</a> So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/25-1.htm">Deuteronomy 25:1</a> If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked; (See RSV NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/27-25.htm">Deuteronomy 27:25</a> 'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' All the people shall say,'Amen.' (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/joshua/2-19.htm">Joshua 2:19</a> and it shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we shall be innocent; but every one who shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be upon our head, if any hand be upon him. (DBY YLT)<a href="/judges/15-3.htm">Judges 15:3</a> And Samson saith of them, 'I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing with them evil.' (YLT)<a href="/judges/21-22.htm">Judges 21:22</a> It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them,'Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.'" (See NIV)<a href="/1_samuel/19-5.htm">1 Samuel 19:5</a> for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/2_samuel/3-28.htm">2 Samuel 3:28</a> Afterward, when David heard it, he said, "I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner. (See NAS NIV)<a href="/2_samuel/4-11.htm">2 Samuel 4:11</a> How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?" (See NIV)<a href="/2_samuel/14-9.htm">2 Samuel 14:9</a> And the woman of Tekoah saith unto the king, 'On me, my lord, O king, 'is' the iniquity, and on the house of my father; and the king and his throne 'are' innocent.' (YLT)<a href="/1_kings/2-5.htm">1 Kings 2:5</a> "Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet. (See RSV)<a href="/1_kings/2-9.htm">1 Kings 2:9</a> Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood." (See NIV)<a href="/1_kings/2-31.htm">1 Kings 2:31</a> And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father. (KJV DBY WBS NIV)<a href="/1_kings/8-32.htm">1 Kings 8:32</a> then hear in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. (See NIV)<a href="/2_kings/10-9.htm">2 Kings 10:9</a> It happened in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, "You are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my master, and killed him; but who struck all these? (See NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/2_kings/21-16.htm">2 Kings 21:16</a> Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/2_kings/24-4.htm">2 Kings 24:4</a> and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/2_chronicles/6-23.htm">2 Chronicles 6:23</a> then hear from heaven, and do, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. (See NIV)<a href="/job/4-7.htm">Job 4:7</a> "Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/job/8-20.htm">Job 8:20</a> Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers. (See JPS)<a href="/job/9-15.htm">Job 9:15</a> Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge. (See RSV NIV)<a href="/job/9-20.htm">Job 9:20</a> Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse. (See JPS RSV NIV)<a href="/job/9-21.htm">Job 9:21</a> I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life. (See JPS)<a href="/job/9-22.htm">Job 9:22</a> It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. (See JPS)<a href="/job/9-23.htm">Job 9:23</a> If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/job/9-28.htm">Job 9:28</a> I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS RSV NIV)<a href="/job/10-15.htm">Job 10:15</a> If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction. (See NIV)<a href="/job/11-4.htm">Job 11:4</a> For you say,'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.' (See NAS)<a href="/job/12-4.htm">Job 12:4</a> I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock. (See JPS)<a href="/job/17-8.htm">Job 17:8</a> Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/job/22-19.htm">Job 22:19</a> The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/job/22-30.htm">Job 22:30</a> He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/job/27-17.htm">Job 27:17</a> he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/job/33-9.htm">Job 33:9</a> 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/job/34-5.htm">Job 34:5</a> For Job has said,'I am righteous, God has taken away my right: (See RSV NIV)<a href="/psalms/10-8.htm">Psalms 10:8</a> He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/psalms/15-5.htm">Psalms 15:5</a> he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/psalms/19-12.htm">Psalms 19:12</a> Errors! who doth understand? From hidden ones declare me innocent, (YLT)<a href="/psalms/19-13.htm">Psalms 19:13</a> Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression. (WEB KJV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)<a href="/psalms/64-4.htm">Psalms 64:4</a> to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly. (WEB NIV)<a href="/psalms/94-21.htm">Psalms 94:21</a> They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/psalms/106-38.htm">Psalms 106:38</a> They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/proverbs/1-11.htm">Proverbs 1:11</a> If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/proverbs/6-17.htm">Proverbs 6:17</a> haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/proverbs/6-29.htm">Proverbs 6:29</a> So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. (KJV DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/proverbs/11-21.htm">Proverbs 11:21</a> Hand for hand! an evil man shall not be held innocent; but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered. (DBY)<a href="/proverbs/16-2.htm">Proverbs 16:2</a> All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales. (See NIV)<a href="/proverbs/16-5.htm">Proverbs 16:5</a> Every proud heart is an abomination to Jehovah: hand for hand, he shall not be held innocent. (DBY)<a href="/proverbs/17-5.htm">Proverbs 17:5</a> Whoso mocketh a poor man reproacheth his Maker; he that is glad at calamity shall not be held innocent. (DBY)<a href="/proverbs/17-15.htm">Proverbs 17:15</a> He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord. (See NIV)<a href="/proverbs/17-26.htm">Proverbs 17:26</a> To give punishment to the upright is not good, or to give blows to the noble for their righteousness. (See NIV)<a href="/proverbs/18-5.htm">Proverbs 18:5</a> To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice. (WEB NIV)<a href="/proverbs/19-5.htm">Proverbs 19:5</a> A false witness shall not be held innocent, and he that uttereth lies shall not escape. (DBY)<a href="/proverbs/19-9.htm">Proverbs 19:9</a> A false witness shall not be held innocent, and he that uttereth lies shall perish. (DBY)<a href="/proverbs/21-8.htm">Proverbs 21:8</a> The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright. (WEB NIV)<a href="/proverbs/24-24.htm">Proverbs 24:24</a> He who says to the evil-doer, You are upright, will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations. (See RSV NIV)<a href="/proverbs/28-20.htm">Proverbs 28:20</a> A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. (KJV DBY WBS)<a href="/isaiah/5-23.htm">Isaiah 5:23</a> who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent! (WEB RSV NIV)<a href="/isaiah/29-21.htm">Isaiah 29:21</a> who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony. (WEB NIV)<a href="/isaiah/59-7.htm">Isaiah 59:7</a> 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/2-34.htm">Jeremiah 2:34</a> Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/2-35.htm">Jeremiah 2:35</a> Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/7-6.htm">Jeremiah 7:6</a> if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/19-4.htm">Jeremiah 19:4</a> Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents, (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/22-3.htm">Jeremiah 22:3</a> Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/22-17.htm">Jeremiah 22:17</a> But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/26-15.htm">Jeremiah 26:15</a> Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for of a truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/daniel/6-22.htm">Daniel 6:22</a> My God hath sent His angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me; forasmuch as before Him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.' (See NAS NIV)<a href="/joel/3-19.htm">Joel 3:19</a> Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/joel/3-21.htm">Joel 3:21</a> And I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Jehovah dwelleth in Zion. (See JPS YLT)<a href="/jonah/1-14.htm">Jonah 1:14</a> Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, "We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, let us not perish for this man's life, and don't lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/zechariah/5-3.htm">Zechariah 5:3</a> And he saith unto me, 'This 'is' the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for every one who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, hath been declared innocent, and every one who hath sworn, on the other side, according to it, hath been declared innocent. 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