Psalms 51:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.”
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“Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts; And in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Lo, truth Thou hast desired in the inward parts, And in the hidden part Wisdom Thou causest me to know.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 51:6 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 20:5Didn’t Abraham tell me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”
- 1 Samuel 16:7But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”
- 2 Samuel 12:13Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
- 2 Kings 20:3“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- 1 Chronicles 29:17I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.
- 2 Chronicles 31:20So this is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the LORD his God.
- Job 32:8But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
- Job 38:36Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?
- Psalms 5:9For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
- Psalms 15:2He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,
- Psalms 26:2Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
- 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 41:5My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”
- Psalms 125:4Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to the upright in heart.
- Proverbs 2:6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
- Proverbs 2:21For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
- Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
- Jeremiah 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
- Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Jeremiah 32:40I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
- Luke 11:39“Now then,” said the Lord, “you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
- John 4:23But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.
- Romans 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
- 2 Corinthians 1:12And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.
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