Jeremiah 7:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,

Cross References

2 Kings 21:6

He made his son pass through fire; he practiced soothsaying and augury and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

2 Kings 24:4

and also for the innocent blood that he had shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to pardon.

Psalm 106:38

they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

Proverbs 23:10

Do not remove an ancient landmark or encroach on the fields of orphans,

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they rush to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.

Jeremiah 13:10

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own will and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.

Jeremiah 19:4

Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah have known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I have struck down your children; they accepted no correction. Your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Jeremiah 2:34

Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things

Jeremiah 26:15

Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will be bringing 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.”

Jeremiah 26:23

and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who struck him down with the sword and threw his dead body into the burial place of the common people.

Jeremiah 35:15

I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, “Turn now every one of you from your evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall live in the land that I gave to you and your ancestors.” But you did not incline your ear or obey me.

Jeremiah 5:28

they have grown fat and sleek. They know no limits in deeds of wickedness; they do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Jeremiah 7:5

For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another,

Jeremiah 7:9

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known

Lamentations 4:13

It was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

Ezekiel 18:6

if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period,

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you.

Leviticus 19:33

“When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien.

Leviticus 25:17

You shall not cheat one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 27:25

Then the people as a whole answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

Matthew 27:4

He said, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.”

Deuteronomy 11:28

and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God but turn from the way that I am commanding you today, to follow other gods that you have not known.

Deuteronomy 24:17

“You shall not deprive a resident alien or an orphan of justice; you shall not take a widow’s garment in pledge.

Deuteronomy 27:19

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who deprives an alien, an orphan, or a widow of justice.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 8:19

If you do forget the Lord your God and follow other gods to serve and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish.

James 1:27

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