Psalm 51:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in [a state of] iniquity; my mother was sinful who conceived me [and I too am sinful]. [John 3:6; Rom. 5:12; Eph. 2:3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

Common English Bible

⁵ Yes, I was born in guilt, in sin, from the moment my mother conceived me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ You have loved malice above goodness, and iniquity more than speaking righteousness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.

Psalm 51:5 Cross References

Genesis 5:3

When Adam had lived one hundred thirty years, he became the father of a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

Genesis 8:21

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.

Psalm 58:3

The wicked go astray from the womb; they err from their birth, speaking lies.

Leviticus 15:18

If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.

John 3:6

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned—

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,