Quotes About Innocence

The flakes stuck in my eyelashes. They fell on my sleeves. Huge. Flowers and stars. They fell onto each other, held their shapes, became small piles of perfect asterisks and blooms tumbled together in their discrete geometries like children's blocks.

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

The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,

And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.

“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.

Now Abimelech had not gone near her, so he replied, “Lord, would You destroy a nation even though it is innocent?

Didnít Abraham tell me, ëShe is my sisterí? And she herself said, ëHe is my brother.í I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.

And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.

Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.

You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.

and they shall declare, “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.

Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for.

So you shall purge from among you the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.

If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned.

ëCursed is he who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

If anyone goes out the door of your house into the street, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if a hand is laid on anyone with you in the house, his blood will be on our heads.

After they had taken Micahís idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a tranquil and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the city.

“What have I done now?” said David. “Was it not just a question?”

He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?”

“Why must he be put to death?” Jonathan replied. “What has he done?”

He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.