Verse 7

Do not hold against me the sins of my youth or my rebellious acts! Because you are faithful to me, extend to me your favor, O LORD!

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 51:1 : 1 For 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!
  • Job 13:26 : 26 For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.
  • Job 20:11 : 11 His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.
  • Jer 3:25 : 25 Let us acknowledge our shame. Let us bear the disgrace that we deserve. For we have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our ancestors. From earliest times to this very day we have not obeyed the LORD our God.’
  • John 5:5 : 5 Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.
  • John 5:14 : 14 After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him,“Look, you have become well. Don’t sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you.”
  • Eph 1:6-7 : 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of his grace
  • Eph 2:4-8 : 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, 5 even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!– 6 and he raised us up together with him and seated us together with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;
  • Heb 8:12 : 12 “For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.”
  • Heb 10:16-18 : 16 “This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,” 17 then he says,“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer.” 18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
  • Ps 6:4 : 4 Relent, LORD, rescue me! Deliver me because of your faithfulness!
  • Ps 31:16 : 16 Smile on your servant! Deliver me because of your faithfulness!
  • Ps 79:8 : 8 Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations! Quickly send your compassion our way, for we are in serious trouble!
  • Ps 109:14 : 14 May his ancestors’ sins be remembered by the LORD! May his mother’s sin not be forgotten!
  • Ps 109:16 : 16 For he never bothered to show kindness; he harassed the oppressed and needy, and killed the disheartened.
  • Ps 109:26 : 26 Help me, O LORD my God! Because you are faithful to me, deliver me!
  • Ps 119:124 : 124 Show your servant your loyal love! Teach me your statutes!
  • Prov 5:7-9 : 7 So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak. 8 Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, 9 lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person, 10 lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house. 11 And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away. 12 And you will say,“How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof! 13 For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors. 14 I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!”
  • Isa 38:17 : 17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. You delivered me from the Pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins from your sight.
  • Isa 43:25 : 25 I, I am the one who blots out your rebellious deeds for my sake; your sins I do not remember.
  • Isa 64:9 : 9 LORD, do not be too angry! Do not hold our sins against us continually! Take a good look at your people, at all of us!