if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you toda
You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after o
but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by fol
Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in
Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.
And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechar
Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppr
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen
Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to
All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteou
“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voraciou
They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the lan
and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling
He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or a
If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him put to the sword and his body thrown into th
“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”
But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst
and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and
But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, upon this city, and upo
For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did gr