Isaiah 59:7

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Isaiah 59:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.

6 Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.

7 Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.

8 The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.

9 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

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Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Romans 3:15

“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.

Jeremiah 22:17

“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”

Lamentations 4:13

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.

Ezekiel 9:9

He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’

Ezekiel 22:6

See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood.

Matthew 23:31

So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Matthew 23:32

Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

Matthew 23:33

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

Matthew 23:34

Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.

Matthew 23:35

And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Matthew 23:36

Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Matthew 23:37

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Revelation 17:6

I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.

Proverbs 15:26

The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.

Proverbs 24:9

A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.

Mark 7:21

For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

Mark 7:22

greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

Acts 8:20

But Peter replied, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!

Acts 8:21

You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.

Acts 8:22

Repent, therefore, of your wickedness, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps He will forgive you for the intent of your heart.

Isaiah 60:18

No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

Romans 3:16

ruin and misery lie in their wake,