Psalm 51:14
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14 Deliver me from bloodshed, O God,
O God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing aloud of your deliverance.(A)
2 Samuel 12:9
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9 Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.(A)
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Psalm 35:28
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28 Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness
and of your praise all day long.(A)
Romans 10:3
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3 Not knowing the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.(A)
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Hosea 4:2
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2 Swearing, lying, and murder,
and stealing and adultery break out;
bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Psalm 26:9
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9 Do not sweep me away with sinners
nor my life with the bloodthirsty,(A)
Acts 20:26
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26 Therefore I declare to you this day that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you,(A)
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Acts 18:6
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6 When they opposed and reviled him, in protest he shook the dust from his clothes[a] and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles.”(A)
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- 18.6 Gk reviled him, he shook out his clothes
Habakkuk 3:18
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18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord;
I will exult in the God of my salvation.(A)
Daniel 9:16
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16 O Lord, in view of all your righteous acts, let your anger and wrath, we pray, turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become a disgrace among all our neighbors.(A)
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Daniel 9:7
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7 “Righteousness is on your side, O Lord, but open shame, as at this day, falls on us, the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them because of the treachery that they have committed against you.(A)
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Ezekiel 33:8
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8 If I say to the wicked, “O wicked ones, you shall surely die,” and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from their ways, the wicked shall die in their iniquity, but their blood I will require at your hand.
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Isaiah 45:17
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17 But Israel is saved by the Lord
with everlasting salvation;
you shall not be put to shame or confounded
ever again.(A)
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