Isaiah 59:7
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7 (A)Their feet run to evil,
and they are swift to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
desolation and destruction are in their highways.
Romans 3:15-17
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15 (A)“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
17 and (B)the way of peace they have not known.”
Proverbs 6:17
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Proverbs 1:16
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16 for (A)their feet run to evil,
and they make haste to shed blood.
Revelation 17:6
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6 And I saw the woman, drunk (A)with the blood of the saints, the blood of (B)the martyrs of Jesus.[a]
When I saw her, I marveled greatly.
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- Revelation 17:6 Greek the witnesses to Jesus
Acts 8:20-22
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20 But Peter said to him, (A)“May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God (B)with money! 21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for (C)your heart is not right before God. 22 Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, (D)if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.
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Ezekiel 22:6
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6 “Behold, (A)the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.
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Ezekiel 9:9
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9 Then he said to me, (A)“The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. (B)The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For (C)they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’
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Lamentations 4:13
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13 This was for (A)the sins of her prophets
and (B)the iniquities of her priests,
who shed in the midst of her
the blood of the righteous.
Jeremiah 22:17
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17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
(A)for shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”
Isaiah 60:18
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18 (A)Violence shall no more be heard in your land,
devastation or destruction within your borders;
(B)you shall call your walls Salvation,
and your gates Praise.
Isaiah 59:3
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3 (A)For your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.
Proverbs 24:9
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Footnotes
- Proverbs 24:9 Or scheming
Proverbs 15:26
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Matthew 23:31-37
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31 Thus you witness against yourselves that you are (A)sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 (B)Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You serpents, (C)you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to (D)hell? 34 (E)Therefore (F)I send you (G)prophets and wise men and (H)scribes, (I)some of whom you will kill and crucify, and (J)some you will (K)flog in your synagogues and (L)persecute from town to town, 35 so that on you may come all (M)the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous (N)Abel to the blood of (O)Zechariah the son of Barachiah,[a] whom you murdered between (P)the sanctuary and (Q)the altar. 36 Truly, I say to you, (R)all these things will come upon this generation.
Lament over Jerusalem
37 (S)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that (T)kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have (U)gathered (V)your children together (W)as a hen gathers her brood (X)under her wings, and (Y)you were not willing!
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- Matthew 23:35 Some manuscripts omit the son of Barachiah
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