Bible Verses About Blood
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for blood, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,464 votes, led by Leviticus 17:11. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Blood
Leviticus 17:11268 votes
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Hebrews 9:22187 votes
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Genesis 9:4152 votes
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
1 John 1:7132 votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Hebrews 13:12105 votes
Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Ezekiel 16:6104 votes
And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
Leviticus 17:14101 votes
For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
1 John 5:6100 votes
This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
Matthew 26:2888 votes
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Hebrews 9:12-1485 votes
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Revelation 1:577 votes
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
John 6:53-5673 votes
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Romans 5:969 votes
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
1 Peter 1:1966 votes
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Revelation 12:1165 votes
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Leviticus 7:2762 votes
Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Acts 15:2057 votes
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:2955 votes
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Romans 3:2554 votes
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Ephesians 1:754 votes
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Hebrews 10:1947 votes
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Ephesians 2:1345 votes
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
1 John 5:844 votes
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
Acts 20:2842 votes
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Leviticus 17:10-1440 votes
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
What does the Bible say about blood?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 17:11 on the subject of blood. Across 3,464 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 9:22, Genesis 9:4, 1 John 1:7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.