Jeremiah 7:6

The Passion Translation

if you don’t mistreat the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow, if you don’t shed innocent blood in this land, if you stop your self-destructive ways of chasing after other gods,

Cross References

Psalm 106:38

shedding the innocent blood of their sons and daughters. These dark practices greatly defiled the land and their own souls, through the murder and bloodshed of their own babies! Their sins made them spiritual adulterers before you.

Proverbs 23:10

Never move a long-standing boundary line or attempt to take land that belongs to the fatherless.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet eagerly run after evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their imaginations are filled with evil; destruction and desolation litter their paths.

Jeremiah 13:10

These evil ones refuse to hear my words, they stubbornly follow the inclinations of their own hearts, and they follow other gods to serve and worship them. So then, they will all become like this worthless, rotten undergarment.

Jeremiah 19:4

For they, their ancestors, and the kings of Judah have defiled this place and forsaken me. They have sacrificed here to strange gods, whom they never knew, and have filled this place with the blood of innocent people.

Jeremiah 2:30

“I’ve wasted my time punishing you because you did not respond to my correction. With the ferocity of a hungry lion, you murdered the prophets I sent to you.

Jeremiah 2:34

Your clothes are stained with the lifeblood of the helpless and innocent, though you did not catch them breaking into your home. Despite all your guilt,

Jeremiah 26:15

Only be sure of this: if you put me to death, you will be bringing innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its people, since Yahweh has truly sent me to bring you the warning you have heard.”

Jeremiah 26:23

who brought Uriah back from Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim. The king executed Uriah with the sword and had his body thrown into the common burial ground.

Jeremiah 35:15

I have repeatedly sent my servants the prophets to you, saying, “Repent, every one of you, from your evil actions and correct the way you’ve been living. Do not chase after other gods to serve them, and you will continue to live on the land I gave to you and your ancestors.” But you have not paid attention or listened to me.

Jeremiah 5:28

fat and prosperous. Indeed, their wickedness knows no bounds. There is no true justice in their judgments— they neither stand up for the rights of the orphans, nor help the needy receive their fair portion.

Jeremiah 7:5

For if you truly change your ways and start living right, if you deal justly with one another,

Jeremiah 7:9

You think you can steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,

Lamentations 4:13

Yet this happened because of the sins of her prophets and the crimes of her priests, who shed innocent blood in the heart of the city.

Ezekiel 18:6

He does not take part in the heathen feasts on the mountains nor worship the false gods of the people of Israel. He does not commit adultery nor have sex with a woman during her period.

Ezekiel 22:7

They have despised their fathers and mothers, cheated the foreigners who live within your walls, and mistreated the widow and orphan.

Matthew 27:25

And the crowd replied, “Let his blood be on us and on our children!”

Matthew 27:4

saying, “I have sinned by betraying an innocent man.” They replied, “Why are you bothering us? That’s your problem.”

James 1:27

True spirituality that is pure in the eyes of our Father God is to make a difference in the lives of the orphans, and widows in their troubles, and to refuse to be corrupted by the world’s values.