Jeremiah 7:6

World Messianic Bible British Edition

if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,

Cross References

2 Kings 21:6

He made his son to pass through the fire, practised sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in the LORD’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

2 Kings 24:4

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not pardon.

Psalm 106:38

They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.

Proverbs 23:10

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Jeremiah 13:10

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.

Jeremiah 19:4

Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burnt incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know—they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah—and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

Jeremiah 2:30

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 2:34

Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things.

Jeremiah 26:15

Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”

Jeremiah 26:23

They fetched Uriah out of Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

Jeremiah 35:15

I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Every one of you must return now from his evil way, amend your doings, and don’t go after other gods to serve them. Then you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers;’ but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.

Jeremiah 5:28

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

Jeremiah 7:5

For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbour;

Jeremiah 7:9

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

Lamentations 4:13

It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.

Ezekiel 18:6

and has not eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbour’s wife, hasn’t come near a woman in her impurity,

Ezekiel 22:7

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Amongst you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Leviticus 19:33

“‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

Leviticus 25:17

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.

Malachi 3:5

I will come near to you to judgement. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Matthew 27:25

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us and on our children!”

Matthew 27:4

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

Deuteronomy 11:28

and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

Deuteronomy 24:17

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

Deuteronomy 27:19

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Deuteronomy 8:19

It shall be, if you shall forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.