Theme · narrative

Blood

God declares to Noah that the life of every creature is in its blood and prohibits its consumption. Abel's blood cries out from the ground — the first innocent blood shed. The Passover lamb's blood marks the doorposts that death passes over. At Sinai, Moses sprinkles the blood of the covenant on the people. The Day of Atonement requires blood sprinkled on the mercy seat. The prophets speak of a new covenant sealed with blood. Jesus says, 'This is my blood of the covenant, poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.' Hebrews concludes: without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Passages expressing this theme

1Cor 10:16 — The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
1Pet 1:2 — Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
1Pet 1:19 — But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Acts 20:28 — Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Col 1:20 — And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Eph 1:7 — In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Eph 2:13 — But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Exod 12:7 — And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
Exod 12:13 — And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Eg
Exod 24:8 — And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
Gen 4:10 — And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Gen 9:4 — But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Heb 9:12 — Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Heb 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:22 — And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Heb 10:19 — Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Heb 12:24 — And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Heb 13:12 — Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Isa 53:12 — Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he
Lev 17:11 — For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Matt 26:28 — For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Matt 27:4 — Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
Matt 27:25 — Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
Ps 72:14 — He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
Rev 1:5 — And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,