Psalms 51:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Behold, I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

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  • 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, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned:
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 Among whom also we all had our conduct in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
  • 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 who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, He puts no trust in His saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in His sight. 16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 And the LORD smelled a pleasing aroma, and the LORD said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of his heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again destroy every living thing, as I have done.
  • Gen 5:3 : 3 And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and had 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%

    1Have mercy on me, O God, according to your lovingkindness; according to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

    2Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

    3For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

    4Against you, you only, have I sinned and done this evil in your sight, that you may be justified when you speak and be clear when you judge.

  • 6Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part you shall make me know wisdom.

  • Ps 139:13-16
    4 verses
    76%

    13For You have formed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother's womb.

    14I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.

    15My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth.

    16Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed; and in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.

  • Ps 22:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9But You are He who took me out of the womb; You made me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.

    10I was cast upon You from the womb; You are my God from my mother’s belly.

  • 6By you have I been upheld from birth; you are he who took me out of my mother's womb; my praise shall be continually of you.

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    73%

    17Because he did not slay me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always great with me.

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

  • 14Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • 14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

  • 8Yes, you did not hear; yes, you did not know; yes, from that time your ear was not opened: for I knew you would deal very treacherously, and were 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 would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.

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

  • Ps 51:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

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

  • 5Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations.

  • 3For I was my father's son, tender and dearly loved in the sight of my mother.

  • 6That You inquire after my iniquity and search after my sin?

  • 18Why then have You brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

  • Job 3:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

    11Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not expire when I came out of the belly?

  • 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 overflowing with water.

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

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

  • 5I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD, and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

  • Ezek 16:4-5
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    68%

    4And as for your nativity, on the day you were born your navel was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

    5No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion upon you; but you were cast out into the open field, to the loathing of your person, on the day you were born.

  • 8Your hands have made and fashioned me together all around; yet You destroy me.

  • 3Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.

  • 24I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from my iniquity.

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

  • 14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be wiped out.

  • 23I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

  • 21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pierced in my mind.

  • 14If I sin, then You mark me, and You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

  • 4How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?

  • 21These things you have done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether like you: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.

  • 35Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.

  • 3Iniquities prevail against me; as for our transgressions, You shall purge them away.

  • 15Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin: and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.