Psalms 51:3
For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is continually before me.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
In Context
2Wash me fully from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:40And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary unto me,
Job 33:27He will sing before men, and say, I have sinned, and perverted what was right, and it hath not been requited to me;
Psalms 38:18For I will declare mine iniquity, I am grieved for my sin.
Psalms 41:5Mine enemies wish me evil: When will he die, and his name perish?
Isaiah 43:25I, I [am] He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
Jeremiah 3:25We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 51:2-7
Penitential Petitions. 1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my… Read the whole commentary →