Jeremiah 7:6

New American Bible - revised edition

if you no longer oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow; if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow after other gods to your own harm,

Cross References

2 Kings 21:6

He immolated his child by fire. He practiced soothsaying and divination, and reintroduced the consulting of ghosts and spirits. He did much evil in the Lord’s sight and provoked him to anger.

2 Kings 24:4

and especially because of the innocent blood he shed; he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not forgive.

Psalm 106:38

Shedding innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, desecrating the land with bloodshed.

Proverbs 23:10

Do not remove the ancient landmark, nor invade the fields of the fatherless;

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness, violence and destruction are on their highways.

Jeremiah 13:10

This wicked people who refuse to obey my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and follow other gods, serving and worshiping them, will be like this loincloth, good for nothing.

Jeremiah 19:4

All because they have forsaken me and profaned this place by burning incense to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors knew; and because the kings of Judah have filled this place with innocent blood,

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I struck your children; correction they did not take. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Jeremiah 2:34

On your clothing is the life-blood of the innocent, you did not find them committing burglary;

Jeremiah 26:15

But you should certainly know that by putting me to death, you bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city and its inhabitants. For in truth it was the Lord who sent me to you, to speak all these words for you to hear.”

Jeremiah 26:23

and they brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to Jehoiakim the king, who struck him down with the sword and threw his corpse into the common burial ground.

Jeremiah 35:15

Time and again I sent you all my servants the prophets, saying: Turn away, each of you, from your evil way and reform your actions! Do not follow other gods to serve them that you may remain in the land which I gave you and your ancestors. But you did not pay attention. You did not obey me.

Jeremiah 5:28

fat and sleek. They pass over wicked deeds; justice they do not defend By advancing the claim of the orphan or judging the cause of the poor.

Jeremiah 7:5

Only if you thoroughly reform your ways and your deeds; if each of you deals justly with your neighbor;

Jeremiah 7:9

Do you think you can steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, sacrifice to Baal, follow other gods that you do not know,

Lamentations 4:13

Except for the sins of her prophets and the crimes of her priests, Who poured out in her midst the blood of the just.

Ezekiel 18:6

if he does not eat on the mountains, or raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel; if he does not defile a neighbor’s wife, or have relations with a woman during her period;

Ezekiel 22:7

Within you, father and mother are dishonored; they extort the resident alien in your midst; within you, they oppress orphans and widows.

Leviticus 19:33

When an alien resides with you in your land, do not mistreat such a one.

Leviticus 25:17

Do not deal unfairly with one another, then; but stand in fear of your God. I, the Lord, am your God.

Malachi 3:5

I will draw near to you for judgment, and I will be swift to bear witness Against sorcerers, adulterers, and perjurers, those who deprive a laborer of wages, Oppress a widow or an orphan, or turn aside a resident alien, without fearing me, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 27:25

And the whole people said in reply, “His blood be upon us and upon our children.”

Matthew 27:4

saying, “I have sinned in betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? Look to it yourself.”

Deuteronomy 11:28

a curse if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord, your God, but turn aside from the way I command you today, to go after other gods, whom you do not know.

Deuteronomy 24:17

You shall not deprive the resident alien or the orphan of justice, nor take the clothing of a widow as pledge.

Deuteronomy 27:19

“Cursed be anyone who deprives the resident alien, the orphan or the widow of justice!” And all the people shall answer, “Amen!”

Deuteronomy 8:19

But if you do forget the Lord, your God, and go after other gods, serving and bowing down to them, I bear witness to you this day that you will perish utterly.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.