Psalms 51:5

American Standard Version (1901)

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
  • Ps 58:3 : 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
  • Rom 5:12 : 12 Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:--
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--
  • John 3:6 : 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight: 16 How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.
  • Gen 5:3 : 3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 51:1-4
    4 verses
    81%

    1[For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba]. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

    2Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.

    3For I know my transgressions; And my sin is ever before me.

    4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight; That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest.

  • 6Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts; And in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.

  • Ps 139:13-16
    4 verses
    76%

    13For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.

    14I will give thanks unto thee; For I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.

    15My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, [And] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

    16Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, [Even] the days that were ordained [for me], When as yet there was none of them.

  • Ps 22:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.

    10I was cast upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God since my mother bare me.

  • 6By thee have I been holden up from the womb; Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: My praise shall be continually of thee.

  • Jer 20:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

    18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

  • 14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • 14I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.

  • 8Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

  • 3The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

  • 16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

  • 14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

  • Ps 51:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities.

    10Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.

  • 5Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee; I have appointed thee a prophet unto the nations.

  • 3For I was a son unto my father, Tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

  • 6That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after my sin,

  • 18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

  • Job 3:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

    11Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

  • 9I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

  • 15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

  • Prov 8:23-25
    3 verses
    70%

    23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.

    24When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.

    25Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;

  • 18For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

  • 5I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. {{Selah

  • Ezek 16:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to cleanse thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

    5No eye pitied thee, to do any of these things unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, for that thy person was abhorred, in the day that thou wast born.

  • 8Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

  • 3Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

  • 24I was also perfect toward him; And I kept myself from mine iniquity.

  • 14What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

  • 14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah; And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

  • 23I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from mine iniquity.

  • 21For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:

  • 14If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

  • 4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

  • 21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: [But] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

  • 35Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

  • 3Iniquities prevail against me: As for our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.

  • 15Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.