Psalms 51:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.”
What this verse means
‘Create in me a clean heart, O God’—David’s prayer of repentance asks God to do what he cannot do for himself: make him new within.
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BSBPD
“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.”
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Other passages that echo Psalms 51:10 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Joshua 14:14Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.
- 1 Kings 15:3And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.
- Psalms 24:4He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.
- Psalms 35:10All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”
- Psalms 73:1Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
- Psalms 78:8Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
- Psalms 78:37Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
- Proverbs 20:9Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
- Jeremiah 13:27Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields— I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
- Jeremiah 32:39I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
- Ezekiel 11:19And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
- Ezekiel 18:31Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?
- Ezekiel 36:25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- Ezekiel 36:37This is what the Lord GOD says: Once again I will hear the plea of the house of Israel and do for them this: I will multiply their people like a flock.
- Matthew 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
- Acts 11:23When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.
- Acts 15:9He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.
- Romans 12:2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
- 1 Corinthians 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
- 2 Corinthians 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
- Ephesians 2:10For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
- Ephesians 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
- Colossians 3:10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
- Titus 3:5He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
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