15 But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.”

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Thus says the Lord: (A)“Execute[a] judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the (B)fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

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  1. Jeremiah 22:3 Dispense justice

if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, (A)or walk after other gods to your hurt,

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17 (A)A[a] proud look,
(B)A lying tongue,
(C)Hands that shed innocent blood,

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  1. Proverbs 6:17 Lit. Haughty eyes

33 So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood (A)defiles the land, and no [a]atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except (B)by the blood of him who shed it.

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  1. Numbers 35:33 Lit. covering

For (A)they have shed the blood (B)of saints and prophets,
(C)And You have given them blood to drink.
[a]For it is their just due.”

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  1. Revelation 16:6 NU, M omit For

15 (A)who killed both the Lord Jesus and (B)their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God (C)and are [a]contrary to all men, 16 (D)forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always (E)to fill up the measure of their sins; (F)but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 hostile

60 Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, (A)“Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

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25 Then Judas, who was betraying Him, answered and said, “Rabbi, is it I?”

He said to him, “You have said it.”

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and (A)plotted to take Jesus by [a]trickery and kill Him.

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  1. Matthew 26:4 deception

30 and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’

31 “Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that (A)you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 (B)Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt. 33 Serpents, (C)brood[a] of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell? 34 (D)Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: (E)some of them you will kill and crucify, and (F)some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, 35 (G)that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, (H)from the blood of righteous Abel to (I)the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.

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  1. Matthew 23:33 offspring

17 “Yet(A) your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness,
For shedding innocent blood,
And practicing oppression and violence.”

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34 Also on your skirts is found
(A)The blood of the lives of the poor innocents.
I have not found it by [a]secret search,
But plainly on all these things.

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  1. Jeremiah 2:34 digging

30 “In vain I have (A)chastened your children;
They (B)received no correction.
Your sword has (C)devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.

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(A)and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord would not pardon.

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10 (A)lest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

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22 And Reuben answered them, saying, (A)“Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Therefore behold, his blood is now (B)required of us.”

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10 And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood (A)cries out to Me from the ground.

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