Bible Verses About Loss of Innocence

The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.

And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would not pardon.

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

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.

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;

But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.