Psalms 51:5

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Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
  • Ps 58:3 : 3 The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born.
  • Rom 5:12 : 12 The Amplification of Justification So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned–
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…
  • John 3:6 : 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? 15 If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes, 16 how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 And the LORD smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself,“I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.
  • Gen 5:3 : 3 When Adam had lived 130 years he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and he named him Seth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 51:1-4
    4 verses
    81%

    1For the music director; a psalm of David, written when Nathan the prophet confronted him after David’s affair with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, because of your loyal love! Because of your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts!

    2Wash away my wrongdoing! Cleanse me of my sin!

    3For I am aware of my rebellious acts; I am forever conscious of my sin.

    4Against you– you above all– I have sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. So you are just when you confront me; you are right when you condemn me.

  • Ps 51:6
    77%

    6Look, you desire integrity in the inner man; you want me to possess wisdom.

  • Ps 139:13-16
    4 verses
    76%

    13Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.

    14I will give you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing. You knew me thoroughly;

    15my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.

    16Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.

  • Ps 22:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother’s breasts.

    10I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother’s womb you have been my God.

  • Ps 71:6
    73%

    6I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother’s womb. I praise you continually.

  • Jer 20:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.

    18Why did I ever come forth from my mother’s womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.

  • Ps 7:14
    73%

    14See the one who is pregnant with wickedness, who conceives destructive plans, and gives birth to harmful lies–

  • Prov 5:14
    72%

    14I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!”

  • Isa 48:8
    72%

    8You did not hear, you do not know, you were not told beforehand. For I know that you are very deceitful; you were labeled a rebel from birth.

  • Ps 58:3
    72%

    3The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born.

  • Job 3:16
    71%

    16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

  • Jer 20:14
    71%

    14Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.

  • Ps 51:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9Hide your face from my sins! Wipe away all my guilt!

    10Create for me a pure heart, O God! Renew a resolute spirit within me!

  • Jer 1:5
    71%

    5“Before I formed you in your mother’s womb I chose you. Before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”

  • Prov 4:3
    70%

    3When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,

  • Job 10:6
    70%

    6that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

  • Job 10:18
    70%

    18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

  • Job 3:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

    11Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?

  • Job 33:9
    70%

    9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

  • Job 31:15
    70%

    15Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

  • Prov 8:23-25
    3 verses
    70%

    23From eternity I have been fashioned, from the beginning, from before the world existed.

    24When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water;

    25before the mountains were set in place– before the hills– I was born,

  • Ps 38:18
    69%

    18Yes, I confess my wrongdoing, and I am concerned about my sins.

  • Ps 32:5
    69%

    5Then I confessed my sin; I no longer covered up my wrongdoing. I said,“I will confess my rebellious acts to the LORD.” And then you forgave my sins.(Selah)

  • Ezek 16:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets.

    5No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; you were thrown out into the open field because you were detested on the day you were born.

  • Job 10:8
    68%

    8Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

  • Job 3:3
    68%

    3“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘A man has been conceived!’

  • 2 Sam 22:24
    68%

    24I was blameless before him; I kept myself from sinning.

  • Job 15:14
    68%

    14What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

  • Ps 109:14
    68%

    14May his ancestors’ sins be remembered by the LORD! May his mother’s sin not be forgotten!

  • Ps 18:23
    68%

    23I was innocent before him, and kept myself from sinning.

  • Ps 73:21
    68%

    21Yes, my spirit was bitter, and my insides felt sharp pain.

  • Job 10:14
    68%

    14If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.

  • Job 25:4
    68%

    4How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

  • Ps 50:21
    68%

    21When you did these things, I was silent, so you thought I was exactly like you. But now I will condemn you and state my case against you!

  • Jer 2:35
    68%

    35you say,‘I have not done anything wrong, so the LORD cannot really be angry with me any more.’ But, watch out! I will bring down judgment on you because you say,‘I have not committed any sin.’

  • Ps 65:3
    68%

    3Our record of sins overwhelms me, but you forgive our acts of rebellion.

  • Jas 1:15
    68%

    15Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.