Quotes About Innocence

Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

I made you thrive like a plant of the field. You grew up and matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.

and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.

From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways—until wickedness was found in you.

My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, for I was found innocent in His sight, and I have done no wrong against you, O king.”

He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

So they cried out to the LORD: “Please, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this manís life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O LORD, have done as You pleased.”

And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”

Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Or havenít you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are innocent?

If only you had known the meaning of ëI desire mercy, not sacrifice,í you would not have condemned the innocent.

Jesus invited a little child to stand among them.

“Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

And whoever welcomes a little child like this in My name welcomes Me.

See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven.

Then the little children were brought to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them and pray for them. And the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

“Do You hear what these children are saying?” they asked. “Yes,” Jesus answered. “Have you never read: ëFrom the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praiseí?”

“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”

While Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered terribly in a dream today because of Him.”

“Why?” asked Pilate. “What evil has He done?” But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify Him!”

When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this manís blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”