Psalms 51:3
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
In Context
2Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:40But 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—
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 38:18Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
Psalms 41:5My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”
Isaiah 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
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.”
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 →