Bible Verses About Protection of the Innocent

Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

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.

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.

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

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.

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

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

He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

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

Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.

In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.