Psalms 51:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.”
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BSBPD
“For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“For I know my transgressions; And my sin is ever before me.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“For my transgressions I do know, And my sin <FI>is<Fi> before me continually.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 51:3 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 26:40But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
- Nehemiah 9:2Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
- Job 33:27Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
- Psalms 32:5Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah
- Psalms 38:18Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
- Psalms 40:12For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
- Psalms 41:5My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”
- Proverbs 28:13He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
- Isaiah 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
- Isaiah 59:12For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:
- Jeremiah 3:25Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
- Luke 15:18I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
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