What does the Bible say about innocent?
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The Bible teaches that God hates the oppression and harm of the innocent, calls His people to sincere holiness, and provides true cleansing from guilt through His grace. Proverbs 6:16-17 condemns hands that shed innocent blood, revealing God’s concern for justice and the vulnerable. Philippians 2:12-16 urges believers to live blamelessly as lights in a crooked world, not by self-righteousness but through God’s work in them. Jesus commands His disciples in Matthew 10:16 to be wise and innocent, combining discernment with purity of heart. James 1:27 shows that genuine faith protects those in need and keeps itself unstained by the world.
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- Proverbs 6:16-17
[16] There are six things which Yahweh hates; Yes, seven which are an abomination to him: [17] Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood;
- Job 22:30
He will even deliver him who is not innocent; Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."
- Philippians 2:12-16
[12] So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. [13] For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure. [14] Do all things without murmurings and disputes, [15] that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world, [16] holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.
- Matthew 10:16
"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
- 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.
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