Jeremiah 26:15

Catholic Public Domain Version

Yet truly, know and understand this: if you kill me, you will be bringing innocent blood against yourselves, and against this city and its inhabitants. For in truth, the Lord sent me to you, so as to speak all these words in your hearing."

Cross References

Genesis 4:10

And he said to him: "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the land.

Genesis 42:22

And Reuben, one of them, said: "Did not I say to you, 'Do not sin against the boy,' and you would not listen to me? See, his blood is exacted."

2 Kings 24:4

and because of the innocent blood which he shed, and because he filled Jerusalem with the slaughter of the innocent. And for this reason, the Lord was not willing to be appeased.

2 Chronicles 24:22

And king Joash did not remember the mercy with which Jehoiada, his father, had treated him; instead he put to death his son. And as he was dying, he said: "May the Lord see and take account."

Proverbs 6:16

Six things there are that the Lord hates, and the seventh, his soul detests:

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Jeremiah 2:30

I have struck your children to no effect; they have not accepted discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets. Your generation is like a raging lion.

Jeremiah 2:34

and in your armpits there is found the blood of poor and innocent souls? I have found them, not in ditches, but everywhere that I mentioned previously.

Jeremiah 22:17

Yet truly, your eyes and your heart are toward avarice and the shedding of innocent blood, and toward false accusations and the pursuit of evil deeds.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Exercise judgment and justice, and free anyone who is oppressed by violence from the hand of a false accuser. And do not be willing to sadden the new arrival, or the orphan, or the widow, nor should you burden them unfairly. And you shall not shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 26:12

And Jeremiah spoke to all the leaders and to the entire people, saying: "The Lord has sent me to prophesy, about this house and about this city, all the words that you have heard.

Jeremiah 30:1

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:

Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not act with deceit toward the new arrival, the orphan, and the widow, and if you do not pour out innocent blood in this place, and if you do not walk after strange gods, which is to your own harm,

Numbers 35:33

Do not pollute the land of your habitation, so as to stain it with the blood of the innocent; neither is it able to be expiated in any way other than by the blood of him who has shed the blood of another.

Matthew 26:25

Then Judas, who betrayed him, responded by saying, "Surely, it is not I, Master?" He said to him, "You have said it."

Matthew 26:4

And they took counsel so that by deceitfulness they might take hold of Jesus and kill him.

Deuteronomy 19:10

So may innocent blood not be shed in the midst of the land which the Lord your God will give you to possess, lest you be guilty of blood.

Revelation 16:6

For they have shed the blood of the Saints and the Prophets, and so you have given them blood to drink. For they deserve this."