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Psalms 51:5
Psalms 51:5 is verse 5 of Psalms chapter 51, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
King James Version
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
World English Bible
Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.
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Psalms 51:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
4 Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
5 Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
6 Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
Genesis 5:3When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.
Genesis 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 15:15If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
Job 15:16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
John 3:6Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
Romans 5:12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
Ephesians 2:3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.