In The KJV Topics Bible

Innocency

Bible verses about Innocency in the King James Version.

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Signified by washing the hands

  • Deuteronomy 21:6

    And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

  • Psalms 26:6

    I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:

  • Matthew 27:24

    When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.

Found in Daniel

  • Daniel 6:22

    My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.

Jeremiah

  • Jeremiah 2:35

    Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

Professed by Pilate

  • Matthew 27:24

    When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.

Contrasted with guilt, compare

  • Genesis 2:25

    And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

  • Genesis 3:7–11

    And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? …