Psalms 51:5
Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 14:4 : 4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
- Ps 58:3 : 3 The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
- Rom 5:12 : 12 For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:
- Eph 2:3 : 3 Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.
- John 3:6 : 6 That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.
- Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright? 15 Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes; 16 How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
- Gen 8:21 : 21 And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.
- Gen 5:3 : 3 Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth:
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- Ps 51:1-44 verses81%
1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.> Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.
2 Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.
3 For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.
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6 Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.
- Ps 139:13-164 verses76%
13 My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.
14 I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.
15 My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.
- Ps 22:9-102 verses75%
9 But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.
10 I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.
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6 You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.
- Jer 20:17-182 verses73%
17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.
18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?
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14 That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.
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14 I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.
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8 Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.
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3 The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
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16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
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14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.
- Ps 51:9-102 verses71%
9 Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.
10 Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.
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5 Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.
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3 For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.
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6 That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,
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18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
- Job 3:10-112 verses70%
10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.
11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
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9 I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:
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15 Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?
- Prov 8:23-253 verses70%
23 From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.
24 When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.
25 Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth:
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18 I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.
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5 I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)
- Ezek 16:4-52 verses68%
4 As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord was not cut and you were not washed in water to make you clean; you were not salted or folded in linen bands.
5 No eye had pity on you to do any of these things to you or to be kind to you; but you were put out into the open country, because your life was hated at the time of your birth.
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8 Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.
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3 Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.
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24 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.
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14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
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14 Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.
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23 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.
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21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:
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14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:
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4 How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
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21 These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.
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35 And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.
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3 Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.
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15 Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.