Innocency
7 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Contrasted with Guilt, Compare
- Genesis 2:25 And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.
- Genesis 3:7–11 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. …
Found in Daniel
- Daniel 6:22 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.”
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 2:35 you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
Professed by Pilate
- Matthew 27:24 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 man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”
Signified by Washing the Hands
- Deuteronomy 21:6 Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,
- Psalm 26:6 I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
- Matthew 27:24 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 man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”
Related topics
Disobedience to God of Adam and Eve, Eating the Forbidden FruitAblution of the Hands, As a Token of InnocencyWashing of Hands, a Token of InnocenceConscience of Adam and Eve, After They SinnedThe Hands were Washed in Token of InnocencyEscape
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.