Jeremiah 7:6
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6 if you (A)do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, (B)or shed innocent blood in this place, (C)and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm,
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Jeremiah 13:10
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10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, (A)who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is (B)good for nothing.
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Deuteronomy 8:19
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19 And if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, (A)I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish.
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Exodus 22:21-24
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21 (A)“You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 22 (B)You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. 23 If you do mistreat them, and they (C)cry out to me, I will surely (D)hear their cry, 24 and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and (E)your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.
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Zechariah 7:9-12
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9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, (A)Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, 10 (B)do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, (C)or the poor, and (D)let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.” 11 But (E)they refused to pay attention (F)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.[a] 12 (G)They made their hearts diamond-hard (H)lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent (I)by his Spirit through (J)the former prophets. (K)Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts.
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- Zechariah 7:11 Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear
Jeremiah 2:34
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34 Also on your skirts is found
(A)the lifeblood of the guiltless poor;
you did not find them (B)breaking in.
Yet in spite of all these things
Deuteronomy 11:28
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28 and (A)the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, (B)to go after other gods that you have not known.
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Deuteronomy 6:14-15
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James 1:27
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27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: (A)to visit (B)orphans and widows in their affliction, and (C)to keep oneself (D)unstained from the world.
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Malachi 3:5
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5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be (A)a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those (B)who oppress the hired worker in his wages, (C)the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
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Jeremiah 22:3-4
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3 Thus says the Lord: (A)Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And (B)do no wrong or violence (C)to the resident alien, (D)the fatherless, and the widow, nor (E)shed innocent blood in this place. 4 For if you will indeed obey this word, (F)then there shall enter the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants and their people.
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Jeremiah 19:4
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4 (A)Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; (B)and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
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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.
Deuteronomy 27:19
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19 (A)“‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
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Deuteronomy 24:17
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17 (A)“You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, (B)or take a widow's garment in pledge,
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Matthew 27:25
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25 And all the people answered, (A)“His blood be on us and (B)on our children!”
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Matthew 27:4
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4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? (A)See to it yourself.”
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Matthew 23:35-37
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35 so that on you may come all (A)the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous (B)Abel to the blood of (C)Zechariah the son of Barachiah,[a] whom you murdered between (D)the sanctuary and (E)the altar. 36 Truly, I say to you, (F)all these things will come upon this generation.
Lament over Jerusalem
37 (G)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that (H)kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have (I)gathered (J)your children together (K)as a hen gathers her brood (L)under her wings, and (M)you were not willing!
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- Matthew 23:35 Some manuscripts omit the son of Barachiah
Ezekiel 22:3-6
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3 You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that (A)her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! 4 You have become guilty (B)by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought (C)your days near, the appointed time of[a] your years has come. (D)Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries. 5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; (E)your name is defiled; (F)you are full of tumult.
6 “Behold, (G)the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.
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- Ezekiel 22:4 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; most Hebrew manuscripts until
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 26:23
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23 and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, (A)who struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people.
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Jeremiah 26:15
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15 Only know for certain that if you put me to death, (A)you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the Lord sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”
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Jeremiah 22:15-17
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15 Do you think you are a king
because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
and (A)do justice and righteousness?
(B)Then it was well with him.
16 (C)He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
(D)then it was well.
Is not this (E)to know me?
declares the Lord.
17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
(F)for shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”
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