Psalms 51:3

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

WEB

For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

ASV

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

LSV

For I know my transgressions, || And my sin [is] continually before me.

YLT

For my transgressions I do know, And my sin [is] before me continually.

DBY

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

DRC50:5

For I know my iniquity, and my sin is always before me.

GNV

For I know mine iniquities, and my sinne is euer before me.

JPS51:5

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

LXXE50:5

For I am conscious of mine iniquity; and my sin is continually before me.

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Original-language editions

WLC51:5

כִּֽי־פְ֭שָׁעַי אֲנִ֣י אֵדָ֑ע וְחַטָּאתִ֖י נֶגְדִּ֣י תָמִֽיד׃KJV:Ps.51.3

LXX-Br50:5

Ὅτι τὴν ἀνομίαν μου ἐγὼ γινώσκω, καὶ ἡ ἁμαρτία μου ἐνώπιόν μου ἐστὶ διαπαντός·

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 28:13He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
• Isaiah 59:12For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:
• Psalms 38:18Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
• Psalms 32:5Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah
• Luke 15:18–21I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’ So he got up and…
• Leviticus 26:40–41But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me— and I acted with hostility toward them and…
• Jeremiah 3:25Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
• Job 33:27Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
• Psalms 40:12For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
• Nehemiah 9:2Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

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