Psalms 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
In Context
9Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.
11Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.
Cross References
Joshua 14:14Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he followed the LORD, the God of Israel wholeheartedly.
Psalms 24:4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
Psalms 73:1Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Psalms 78:37For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
Jeremiah 13:27I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”
Ezekiel 11:19I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 51:8-14
Penitential Petitions. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. 13 Then will I teach… Read the whole commentary →