Bible Verses About Killing Innocent
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for killing innocent, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 657 votes, led by Exodus 23:7. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Killing Innocent
Exodus 23:7102 votes
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Exodus 20:1362 votes
Thou shalt not kill.
Proverbs 6:16-1958 votes
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Leviticus 24:1738 votes
And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
Proverbs 17:1534 votes
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.
1 John 3:1233 votes
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
Genesis 9:626 votes
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Isaiah 5:2024 votes
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Romans 9:1124 votes
(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
Proverbs 6:1722 votes
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Jeremiah 1:520 votes
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Romans 12:1920 votes
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Psalms 11:519 votes
The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Exodus 21:22-2517 votes
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
James 4:217 votes
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Deuteronomy 27:2516 votes
Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Joel 3:1916 votes
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
1 Samuel 15:314 votes
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
1 John 3:1514 votes
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Genesis 9:5-613 votes
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
Exodus 22:213 votes
If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
Romans 13:412 votes
For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Exodus 12:29-3011 votes
And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Exodus 22:1911 votes
Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
Matthew 26:5211 votes
Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
What does the Bible say about killing innocent?
Readers most often cite Exodus 23:7 on the subject of killing innocent. Across 657 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 20:13, Proverbs 6:16-19, Leviticus 24:17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.