Psalms 51:3
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
In Context
2Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:40If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
Job 33:27He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
Psalms 38:18For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
Psalms 41:5Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
Isaiah 43:25I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember your sins.
Jeremiah 3:25We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and 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 →